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retransˈform, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To transform or change (a person or thing) again, or back to a former condition.
1600Tourneur Transf. Metam. lxxxvi, Eliza will you retransforme againe. 1633Davenant Cœlum Brit. Wks. (1673) 361 Earthly beauties which his raging Queen..turn'd to beasts, And in despight he retransform'd to Stars. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 513 Of a man as it were transformed into a Beast, and again of a beast re-transformed into a man. 1850Sir A. Agnew in Mem. (1852) iv. 97 Men are retransformed to the image of God by the renewing of their minds. 1878Stewart & Tait Unseen Univ. iii. §102. 112 As the ball descends its energy is retransformed from the potential into the kinetic variety.
So retransforˈmation.
1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xiv, My final re-transformation from india-rubber back to flesh. 1884Child Ballads ii. 336/2 The retransformation of Tam Lin. |