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Definition of Transmuting
1. transmute [v] - See also: transmute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transmuting
Literary usage of Transmuting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"... a priest of the eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience
into the radiant body of everliving life. ..."
2. The Life of Robert Fulton by Cadwallader David Colden (1817)
"It is as reasonable to suppose that a man would live in want, if he possessed
the power of transmuting metals. It is very true, that some ingenious attempts ..."
3. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"Si i- Thomas Smith, and the earl of Leicester, to the lord treasurer Burleigh,
members of the society of the new art, for transmuting iron into copper: ..."
4. Posthumous Tracts by Emanuel Swedenborg (1847)
"The idea of the possibility of transmuting metals, into gold especially, is deeply
seated in many minds. The hope of effecting this conversion is encouraged ..."
5. The Long Road of Woman's Memory by Jane Addams (1916)
"THE LONG ROAD OF WOMAN'S MEMORY CHAPTER I WOMEN'S MEMORIES — transmuting THE
PAST, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE STORY OF THE DEVIL BABY QUITE as it would be hard ..."
6. Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins Belonging to His by William Henry Smyth (1856)
"... her prophetic powers, her wailings for Numa, and her skill in transmuting
earthenware dishes into vessels of gold,—is altogether a monstrous myth; ..."
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