Hypertext Webster Gateway: "transmuted"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Transmute \Trans*mute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transmuted}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Transmuting}.] [L. transmutare, transmutatum;
trans across + mutare to change. See {Mutable}, and cf.
{Transmew}.]
To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another;
to transform.

The caresses of parents and the blandishments of
friends transmute us into idols. --Buckminster.

Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy.
--H. Smith.


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