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▪ I. metamorphosing, vbl. n.|mɛtəˈmɔːfəʊzɪŋ, -fəsɪŋ|
[f. metamorphose v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb metamorphose.
1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 596 From this changing of rods into Serpents, came the several metamorphosing of sundry other things into Serpents also. 1878T. Sinclair Mount 253 None has been nearer to seeing the Shakespearean metamorphosing here than Macdonald.
attrib.1730Royal Remarks 21 We were soon hurried away to a Metamorphosing House in the Hay-Market.
▪ II. metaˈmorphosing, ppl. a.
[f. metamorphose v. + -ing2.]
That metamorphoses or causes metamorphosis.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 32 All things are become new, spirituall, faithfull,..by the metamorphosing Spirit. 1878Bell tr. Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 8 [It] in effect operates as a modifying and even metamorphosing agent. 1888Pall Mall G. 15 June 13/2 That..current of civilization from whose metamorphosing waves a woman inevitably emerges either a Vera or a Princess Napraxine.
b. That undergoes metamorphosis.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 507 The flea undergoes all the changes of the metamorphosing tribes of insects. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 205 The ‘metamorphosing’ breathing of Seitz consists of an inspiratory sound harsh or rough at its commencement, becoming hollow or tubular towards the end of the act of inspiration. |