transmewtransmuev.
/trɑːnzˈmjuː//tranzˈmjuː//trɑːnsˈmjuː//tranzˈmjuː/ Obsolete or archaic. † b. intransitive for passive. = transmute v. 1c. Obsolete.
a. transitive. = transmute v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)]
wendOE
forshapeOE
workOE
awendOE
makec1175
turna1200
forwenda1325
change1340
shape1362
transmewc1374
transposec1380
puta1382
convertc1384
exchangea1400
remue?a1400
makea1425
reduce?a1425
removec1425
resolvea1450
transvertc1450
overchangec1480
mew1512
transmutea1513
wring1524
reduct1548
transform1556
innovate1561
metamorphose1576
transume1579
metamorphize1587
transmove1590
transchangea1599
transfashion1601
deflect1613
fordo1624
entail1628
transmutate1632
distila1637
to make much (also little, something, nothing, etc.) of1637
transqualify1652
unconvert1654
simulate1658
spend1668
transverse1687
hocus-pocus1774
mutate1796
fancy1801
to change around1871
metamorphosize1888
catalyse1944
morph1996
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 439 (467) Thow most me first transmuwen [v.r. transmute] in a ston.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 802 (830) Ioies..Þat now transmuwed ben in cruel wo.
c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 4323 She to A larke was transmewed.
1512 Helyas in W. J. Thoms Coll. Early Prose Romances (1828) III. 81 His v. brethren and his sister, which were transmued in to swannes.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G3 Men into stones therewith he could transmew, And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all.
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) v. iv. 82 I Robert Moth..do transmue my name to Giffery.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. xlii As if transmew'd to stone.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iv. 147 To cast my riding slough, and to transmew myself into some civil form.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > be transformed [verb (intransitive)]
wortheOE
awendOE
golOE
turnc1275
changec1300
runc1384
to run into ——c1384
fare1398
writhea1400
transmewc1400
returnc1475
transume1480
convert1549
transform1597
remove1655
transeate1657
transmute1675
make1895
metamorphose1904
shapeshift1927
metamorphize1943
metamorphosize1967
morph1992
c1400 Rom. Rose 2526 In siker wise thou hir salewe, Wherwith thi colour wole transmewe.
c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 303 Dame nature..Alle erthely thing repaireth newe..Eche thinge..Which she seth faylle and transmywe.
a1461 J. Lydgate Beware Doubleness 44 Fortune's wheel..Whos cours standeth ever in doute For to transmew.
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