metamorphize

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English

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Etymology

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From meta- +‎ morph +‎ -ize.

Verb

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metamorphize (third-person singular simple present metamorphizes, present participle metamorphizing, simple past and past participle metamorphized)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To transform or change; metamorphose.
    • 1628, William Prynne, The Vnlouelinesse, of Louelockes. Or, A Summarie Discourse, Proouing: The Wearing, and Nourishing of a Locke, or Loue-locke, to be Altogether Vnseemely, and Vnlawfull unto Christians. [], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 1:
      [T]hoſe Laſciuious, Immodeſt, VVhoriſh, or vngodly Faſhions, and Attires, vvhich Metamorphiſe, and Transforme, our Light, and Giddie Females of the Superior and Gentile ranke, into ſundry Antique, Horred, and Out-landiſh ſhapes, from day, to day: []

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