Definition of Transmogrification

1. Noun. The act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one). "The transmogrification of the prince into a porcupine"

Generic synonyms: Transformation, Translation
Derivative terms: Transmogrify

Definition of Transmogrification

1. n. The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation.

Definition of Transmogrification

1. Noun. the act or process of being transformed into a different form ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transmogrification

transmitivity
transmits
transmittable
transmittal
transmittals
transmittance
transmittances
transmittant
transmitted
transmitted light
transmitter
transmitters
transmittible
transmitting
transmitting aerial
transmogrification (current term)
transmogrifications
transmogrified
transmogrifies
transmogrify
transmogrifying
transmon
transmons
transmontane
transmountain
transmundane
transmural
transmural care
transmural myocardial infarction
transmural pressure

Literary usage of Transmogrification

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1915)
"(This was selected, not as poetry, especially, but as a test of whether the transmogrification of a didactic, homiletic poem would be successful. ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"transmogrification, t. Transmutation, S. "To be mm-,—since my time and your worthy father's time, it has undergone a great transmogrification. ..."

3. Fishing Gossip: Or, Stray Leaves from the Note-books of Several Anglers by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell (1866)
""An ingenious transmogrification of the old salmon-leister," I fancy I hear some bilious censor exclaim: " Just such a transmogrification, sweet-tempered ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"... air," well fitted to " make passionate the sense of hearing," and melt the soul of even Don Adriano de Armado. The transmogrification of " Coolin" into ..."

5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"says Jones delighted to Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son, whom I recollected a snivelling little boy ..."

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