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transmuted, ppl. a.|trɑːnsˈmjuːtɪd, træns-, -nz-| [f. prec. + -ed1.] Changed in form or nature; altered; transformed.
1749Johnson Van. Hum. Wishes ad fin., Patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. 1805–6Cary Dante's Inf. xxix. 35 Who forged transmuted metals by the power Of alchemy. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) II. ix. 183 Its matter is for the most part transmuted gas. †b. Her. Of a charge on a field of two tinctures: Having the tinctures of the field reversed; = counterchanged. Obs.
1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. f ij, He berith quarterly Sable and Siluer with a Cheueron of the sayd colowris transmutit. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 29, I terme these lyons transmuted because ye lyon first placed in ye fielde, is Sable, in Or, and the other is Or, in Sable. c1828in Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. |