transmogrifyv.
/trɑːnzˈmɒɡrᵻfʌɪ/, /tranzˈmɒɡrᵻfʌɪ/, /trɑːnsˈmɒɡrᵻfʌɪ/, /transˈmɒɡrᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /trænzˈmɑɡrəˌfaɪ/, /træn(t)sˈmɑɡrəˌfaɪ/ vulgar or humorous.
a. transitive. To alter or change in form or appearance; to transform, metamorphose (utterly, grotesquely, or strangely).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > in form or appearance
makec1175
transfigurea1340
transformc1340
overcasta1387
translatea1393
shapec1400
resolvea1450
transfigurate?a1475
fashion1528
converta1530
to bless into1534
redact1554
trans-shape1575
deduce1587
star1606
deducta1627
Pythagorize1631
to run into ——a1640
transpeciate1643
transmogrify1656
throw1824
transfeature1875
squirm1876
recontour1913
1656 S. Holland Don Zara i. vi. 46 So that he remained for a time as one trans-elemented. [Note] Meaning transmografide, or me-morphosed into a Mandrake.
1671 A. Behn Amorous Prince iii. iii. 41 I wou'd Love would Transmogriphy me to a Maid now.
1678 E. Ravenscroft Eng. Lawyer iii. 30 I'll go put on my other dress, and be transmogrifi'd to Dulman.
1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia iii. i. 43 I know I am Transmography'd: But I am your very Brother, Ned.
1725 New Canting Dict. Transmogrify, or rather Transmigrafy.
1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques v. iv. 65 I begin to think..that some wicked Enchanters have transmographied my Dulcinea.
1751 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) 85 The first volume of the Divine Legation..is so transmogrified that you will hardly know it again.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxiv. 155 Thou art so transmographied and bedaubed, and bedizened.
1786 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 145 Social Life and Glee sit down..Till, quite transmugrify'd, they 're grown Debauchery and Drinking.
1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 56 777 By proper clipping and pruning..an ingenious editor might transmogriphy these simple epistles into the philippics of Junius.
a1888 M. Howitt Autobiogr. (1889) II. 278 It was transmogrified by the addition of two storeys and a flat roof.
b. To astonish utterly, confound. dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > surprise, astonish [verb (transitive)]
gloppena1250
abavea1400
ferlya1400
forferlya1400
supprisec1405
stonish1488
surprend1549
stagger1556
thunderbolta1586
admire1598
startle1598
thunderstrike1613
siderate1623
dumbfound1653
surprise1655
stammer1656
strange1657
astartlea1680
dumbfounder1710
knock1715
to take aback1751
flabbergast1773
to take back1796
stagnate1829
to put aback1833
to make (a person) sit up1878
to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1884
transmogrify1887
rock1947
to flip out1964
1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 84 We..made our way here and are quite transmogrified to find everything so outrageously transformed.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Transmogrivied,..surprised, greatly astonished.
Derivatives
transˌmogrification n. /-fɪˈkeɪʃən/ the action of transmogrifying, (strange or grotesque) transformation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun]
overchangingc1384
transmutation1398
permutationa1425
transforming1435
resolutiona1450
translating1503
resolvinga1513
conversion1549
transposing1550
conversationa1570
transmuting1579
projection?1583
transmigration1618
version1626
transversion1656
transmogrification1661
converting1711
metamorphosing1730
metastasis1818
turn-over1825
interconversion1865
transnaturation1873
transmorphism1888
segue1945
the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > action or fact of changing shape
metamorphosis1447
transformation?a1475
metamorphosy1532
transfiguration1548
transforming1580
metamorphose1608
metamorphosing1608
metamorphizing1609
transformance1611
transmogrification1661
transfigurement1865
1661 K. W. Confused Characters 71 It must march at least thrice to the botchers for transmogrification.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. ii. 6 The Transmogrification of the Macrobian Children into Swans.
a1878 G. G. Scott Recoll. (1879) i. 47 The Tower..has undergone strange transmogrifications.
transˈmogrified adj.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adjective] > transformed
transformed1413
transmutate?a1475
leavened1587
trans-shaped1602
Pythagoreana1667
transfigured1678
metamorphosed1730
transmuted1749
transmogrifiedc1832
transnatural1907
metamorphosized1948
born-again1977
c1832 M. M. Sherwood in Life (1847) xxx. 529 We were led..over our transmographied terrace.
1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Aloys in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 249 The transmogrified Pagan perform'd his vow.
transˈmogrifier n. /-faɪə(r)/ one who transmogrifies.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > cause of transformation
forschuppild?c1225
converter1533
transformer1601
plantator1616
transformator1617
transmogrifier1676
new broom1799
transformist1799
denaturalizer1832
catalyser1904
wind (also winds) of change1905
catalyst1943
touchpaper1968
1676 Poor Robins Intelligence 13–20 June 2/1 A notable fewd between a Translator of Shooes and a Transmogrifier of Garments, that is to say betwixt a Cobler and a Botcher.
1841 Fraser's Mag. 23 338 Our modern transmogrifiers and parodists of ancient architecture.
transˈmogrifying adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adjective] > transforming
transmuting1579
metamorphosing1607
transmutative1611
leavening1628
transmutatorya1631
transforminga1653
conversive1656
convertive1816
metamorphotic1826
transmutive1836
transfiguring1846
transmogrifying1851
permutating1852
transfigurating1871
transfigurative1899
1851 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn (rev. ed.) xliii. 424 It [sc. love] is the most transmogrifying passion!
1904 Longman's Mag. Dec. 149 The transmogrifying process is being carried out only too rapidly.
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