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▪ I. † ˈtransmutate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. transmūtāt-us, pa. pple. of transmūtāre to transmute.]
Transmuted. (Const. as pa. pple.)
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 343 Iupiter..putte her in a schippe in whom he had a bulle depicte, wherefore poetes feyne Iupiter to be transmutate in to the similitude of a bulle. 1668Baxter Dying Th. (1850) 156 As if the fiery part of the candle were annihilated or transmutate,..when the candle goeth out; and were not fire, and in action still.
▪ II. † ˈtransmutate, v. Obs. rare.
[f. ppl. stem of L. transmūtāre to transmute: see -ate3.]
trans. = transmute 1.
1632Vicars æneid v. 140 Here fortune her faire face first transmutated. 1659Stanley Hist. Philos. ix. (1687) 550/2 Solid Bodies, whose Elements are four, Fire, Water, Air, Earth; of all which, transmutated, and totally changed, the World consists. 1659Ibid. xi. 763/1 By immixture of some small thing to be transmutated. |