单词 | metamorphosed |
释义 | metamorphosedadj. That has undergone metamorphosis; changed in form, nature, or character. Also in Geology: that has undergone metamorphism. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adjective] > changed in form metamorphized1595 metamorphosed1596 the world > space > shape > [adjective] > shaped > again or anew > into different form transformed1413 metamorphized1595 metamorphosed1596 transfigured1678 metamorphic1816 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adjective] > transformed transformed1413 transmutate?a1475 leavened1587 trans-shaped1602 Pythagoreana1667 transfigured1678 metamorphosed1730 transmuted1749 transmogrifiedc1832 transnatural1907 metamorphosized1948 born-again1977 the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adjective] > transformation of tissue metamorphosed1859 metamorphosing1878 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > metamorphism > [adjective] > changed metamorphosed1878 1596 J. Harington (title) An Anatomie of the Metamorphosed Aiax. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 1117 Yet..would not these metamorphosed monsters yeeld the towne vnto the Turkes. 1656 S. Holland Don Zara ii. v. 109 A number of Metamorphosed men turned into Beasts by the Inchantments of this wicked Sorceresse. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 84 The Monument of Lot's Metamorphos'd wife. 1730 H. Fielding Temple Beau i. v. 11 These Cloaths! these Looks! these Airs! give me Reason to wonder how I recollected my metamorphosed Friend. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xvi. 247 The metamorphosed horse-dealer was silenced, of course. View more context for this quotation 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xiii. 438 Naturalists frequently speak of the skull as formed of metamorphosed vertebræ; the jaws of crabs as metamorphosed legs; the stamens and pistils of flowers as metamorphosed leaves. 1878 A. H. Green et al. Coal: Hist. & Uses ii. 43 The rocks..are highly metamorphosed Lower Silurian beds. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 160 These old, metamorphosed thrombi. 1932 A. Harker Metamorphism xx. 342 The changes which befall metamorphosed rocks subsequently to the culmination of metamorphism..are of the nature of degradation. 1989 D. R. Koontz Midnight i. xxvii. 107 His own transformed body, had become his prison, prison, metamorphosed bones serving as the bars of a cell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1596 |
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