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metamorphoser|mɛtəˈmɔːfəʊzə(r), -fəsə(r)| [f. metamorphose v. + -er1.] One who or that which metamorphoses.
1576Gascoigne Del. Diet. for Drunkards (1792) 14 What shall I name this man, but a beastly Metamorphoser, both of himself & of others? 1769B. Alexander in Monthly Rev. XLII. 102 The impositions of a crafty metamorphoser. 1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) III. i. 23 He was as good a metamorphoser of bipeds as the Yorkshire ostler was of quadrupeds. |