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metamorphoses
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The Metamorphoses (: "Books of Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid , considered his magnum opus . Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths , the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification ...
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n. (plural of metamorphosis English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: metamorphose )
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n. the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals [syn: metabolism ] a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances; "the metamorphosis of the old house into something new and exciting" [syn: transfiguration ...
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Metamorphosis \Met`a*mor"pho*sis\, n.; pl. Metamorphoses . [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to be transformed; meta` beyond, over + morfh` form.] Change of form, or structure; transformation. (Biol.) A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural ...
Usage examples of metamorphoses.
And the forms of the cumuli themselves tell us in manifold metamorphoses of a state of equilibrium between expansive and contractive tendencies within the atmosphere.
All subjective experience is an epiphenomenal consequence of the motions and metamorphoses of matter.
In fact, all the different organs which the plant produces within its life cycle - foliage, calyx, corolla, organs of fertilization, fruit and seed - are metamorphoses of one and the same organ.
As such they represent metamorphoses, in the Goethean sense, of the levity-gravity interaction represented by the optically visible part of the spectrum.
If, however, we let nature herself speak to us, while holding this differentiated concept of levity in mind, she tells us that beyond the three metamorphoses envisaged so far, there must be a fourth.
It's all a whirl of extendible lines of credit, substitution of goods, and metamorphoses of capital.
This was the poet Ovid, the author of the Metamorphoses, and dozens of other earthy, hilarious and bawdy works.
To continue, Ovid had fallen out of favor with Augustus, and he had been banned, but men like my Father were not about to burn their copies of the Metamorphoses, or any other of Ovid's work, and the only reason they didn’t plead for Ovid's pardon was fear.