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transmogrify, v. vulgar or humorous.|trɑːnsˈmɒgrɪfaɪ, træns-, -nz-|
Also 7–9 -mografy, -mography, -mogriphy, 8 -migrafy, -mugrify.
[Origin uncertain: see Note below.]
trans. To alter or change in form or appearance; to transform, metamorphose (utterly, grotesquely, or strangely).
1656S. Holland Zara vi. (1719) 33 So that he remained for a time as one trans-elemented. [Note] Meaning transmografide, or metarmorphosed into a Mandrake. 1671A. Behn Amorous Prince iii. iii, I wou'd Love would transmogriphy me to a maid now. 1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia iii. i. 39, I know I am Transmography'd; but I am your very Brother, Ned. 1725New Cant. Dict., Transmogrify, or rather Transmigrafy. 1728Fielding Love in Sev. Masques v. iv. 68, I begin to think..that some wicked Enchanters have transmographied my Dulcinea. 1736tr. Ruggle's Ignoramus iii. 35 I'll go put on my other Dress, and be transmogrify'd to Dulman. 1751Warburton Lett. (1809) 85 The first volume of the Divine Legation..is so transmogrified that you will hardly know it again. 1753Smollett Ct. Fathom xxiv, Thou art so transmographied, and bedaubed, and bedizened. 1786Burns Addr. Unco Guid v, Social life and Glee sit down,..Till, quite transmugrify'd, they 're grown Debauchery and Drinking. 1844Blackw. Mag. LVI. 777 By proper clipping and pruning..an ingenious editor might transmogriphy these simple epistles into the philippics of Junius. a1888M. Howitt Autobiog. (1889) II. 278 It was transmogrified by the addition of two storeys and a flat roof.
b. To astonish utterly, confound. dial.
1887P. M'Neill Blawearie 84 We..made our way here and are quite transmogrified to find everything so outrageously transformed. 1888Berks. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Transmogrivied,..surprised, greatly astonished. [Note. If the original form was (as suggested in quot. 1725) transmigrafy, this may have been a vulgar or uneducated formation in -fy from transmigure, or transmigrate v. (cf. transmigration 3 b). Apparently, it was originally persons that were ‘transmografied’, or metamorphosed.] Hence transˈmogrified, transˈmogrifying ppl. adjs.; also transˌmogrification |-fɪˈkeɪʃən|, the action of transmogrifying, (strange or grotesque) transformation; transˈmogrifier |-faɪə(r)|, one who transmogrifies.
1661K. W. Conf. Charac., Hide-Parke Lady (1860) 58 It must march at least thrice to the botchers for *transmogrification. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. ii. 6 The Transmogrification of the Macrobian Children into Swans. a1878Sir G. G. Scott Recoll. i. (1879) 47 The Tower..has undergone strange transmogrifications.
c1832Mrs. Sherwood in Life xxx. (1847) 529 We were led..over our *transmographied terrace. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. St. Aloys, The transmogrified Pagan perform'd his vow.
1676Poor Robin's Intell. 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. 1841Fraser's Mag. XXIII. 338 Our modern transmogrifiers and parodists of ancient architecture.
1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow B. xliii, It [love] is the most *transmogrifying passion. 1904Longm. Mag. Dec. 149 The transmogrifying process is being carried out only too rapidly. |