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transpeciate, v. Now rare.|trɑːnˈspiːʃɪeɪt, træn-|
[f. trans- + L. speciēs look, appearance, form, kind, species + -ate3.]
trans. To change into a different form or species; to transform.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §30, I do not credit..that the Devil hath a power to transpeciate a man into a Horse. 1694Westmacott Script. Herb. (1695) 77 Revived and transpeciated into a quite different and highly useful form. 1721Bailey, Transpeciated,..changed from one species to another. 1894G. S. Hall in Forum (N.Y.) May 309 There is no better test of educational institutions..than..how far the lower has been transpeciated into the higher.
Hence transpeciˈation, transformation; change from one form or species into another.
1867H. Maudsley Physiol. Mind 164 Transpeciation is a word used by Sir Thomas Brown which might be found useful at the present day. 1870― Body & Mind 175 For the exaltation and transpeciation of force and material. 1883― Body & Will ii. iii. 132 First, that there has been what we may call a nisus of evolution in nature, and, secondly, that progressive transpeciations of matter have been events of it. |