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▪ I. transˈforming, vbl. n.
[f. as transformer + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. transform; transformation.
1435Misyn Fire of Love 40 Qwhat is lufe bott transfourmynge of desire In to þe þinge lufyd? 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Transfiguration, a transforming. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vi. lv, With quick and strange transforming. 1883J. T. Burgess in Athenæum 3 Nov. 569/1 The transforming of the south transept into the vestry.
▪ II. transˈforming, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
a. That transforms.
a1653Binning Serm. (1845) 10 Love is an uniting and transforming thing. 1827Keble Chr. Y., 13th Sunday Trin. xviii, Our..Saviour's face..Bent on us with transforming power. 1842I. Williams Baptistery i. ix. (1874) 107, I gaz'd Upon the footsteps of transforming time. 1907W. M. Ramsay in Expositor Jan. 72 The transforming hand of man was applied to it.
b. transforming principle (Biol.), a substance that genetically transforms bacterial cells (transform v. 1 f).
1944Jrnl. Exper. Med. LXXIX. 155 If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as possessing biological specificity the chemical nature of which is as yet undetermined. 1965Peacocke & Drysdale Molecular Basis Heredity iii. 13 The transforming principle has two properties characteristic of genes, namely, determination of a specific inheritable property and self-reproduction.
Hence transˈformingly adv.
1865H. Bushnell Vicar. Sacr. ii. (1868) 68 He could not so powerfully and transformingly impress the fact. 1874Geo. Eliot Coll. Breakf. P. 771 That energy Which moves transformingly in root and branch. |