A complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft

Usage examples of metamorphosis.

Goethe recognized a metamorphosis of the process of anastomosis at a higher level.

The anthropological metamorphoses of bodies are established through the common experience of labor and the new technologies that have constitutive effects and ontological implications.

The arm was stiff, as if undergoing a Medusan metamorphosis: flesh into stone.

And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.

Others advance in a stepwise fashion through a series of metamorphoses.

Sleep beckons, the stream of calm transubstantiation that metamorphoses oblivion into reparation and rejuvenation, and that alone is wonder enough for one and all to close this fitful night!

The rhythm that the revolutionary movements have established is the beat of a new aetas, a new maturity and metamorphosis of the times.

Dostoevsky himself had once strongly sympathized with French Utopian Socialism in its initial, semi-Christian form, and he knew very well that, even in its Russian metamorphosis of the 1860s, it bore little resemblance to the unbridled amorality preached and practiced by Peter Verkhovensky.

Instead of changing gradually and remaining active all the time up to the final metamorphosis, our corydalus goes into the pupa state, and in that motionless condition transforms to the perfect insect.

Both Euclidean and polar-Euclidean space are particular manifestations of it, their mutual relationship being one of metamorphosis in the Goethean sense.

Through enactment, they were meant to feel themselves incorporated into a ritual of France Renovated: past, present and future arrayed and harmonized like some Ovidian metamorphosis.

This somatic outing borders on metamorphosis: the glands are like walnuts, and the bird tuberculosis has an almost Ovidian flavor to it, in addition to a scary sense of flight and flux, so that even the dead body in the casket is disturbingly active and on the move, a potent agent of transmission.

Its metamorphosis complete, it had been quivering frantically within the cocoon, its wirelike legs twitching ceaselessly, as if it was eager to be free but frightened of the hostile world into which it would be born.

The barnacles were hermaphroditic, and the initial metamorphosis always resulted in female barnacles alone.

Here they undergo a most remarkable transformation, a metamorphosis into young, cylindrical elvers which seek out the fresh waters of the rivers and streams.