Transmew

Trans`mew´


v. t. & i. 1. To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose.
To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester.
- Sir W. Scott.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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``Gramercy for thy sack,'' said Wamba; ``but think'st thou it is lawful for me to aid you to transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester?''
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Men into stones therewith he could transmew, And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all; And when him list the prouder lookes subdew He would them gazing blind, or turn to other hew.
'In th'armor of a Pagan knight': romance and anachronism East of England in book V of The Faerie Queene and Tamburlaine
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