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metamorphose
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metamorphose \Met`a*mor"phose\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]tamorphose. See Metamorphosis.] Same as Metamorphosis.
Metamorphose \Met`a*mor"phose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Metamorphosed; p. pr. & vb. n. Metamorphosing.] [Cf. F. m['e]tamorphoser.] To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
And earth was metamorphosed into man.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Middle French métamorphoser (16c.), from métamorphose (n.), from Latin metamorphosis (see metamorphosis). Related: Metamorphosed. The Greek verb was metamorphoun.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context of a moth or insect English) to undergo metamorphosis 2 to transform (something) into a completely different appearance
WordNet
v. change completely the nature or appearance of; "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"; "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman"; "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection" [syn: transfigure, transmogrify]
change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" [syn: transform, transmute]
Wikipedia
Métamorphose or Métamorphose file -n- folder renamer is an open source batch renamer. The focus is on legibility, usability, and power - there are no codes or formats to remember and all controls are shown, yet rather complicated operations can be done. Because it is written in wxPython, it is very portable, and can run on all major operating systems.
Métamorphose is first studio album by French Heavy metal band Sortilège released in 1984. It was the first album released by Madrigal. In 1997 Madrigal re-released this album with English versions of Majesté, Légende, Civilisation Perdue, Cyclope De L'etang and Métamorphose as bonus tracks.
Métamorphose may refer to:
- "Métamorphose" (song), a 1989 song by Amanda Lear
- Métamorphose (album), a 1984 album by Sortilège
- Métamorphose (renamer), an open source batch renamer
Usage examples of "metamorphose".
Realizing he was not dealing with a mischievous or destructive student, the guard metamorphosed from accusatory to concerned.
The anthropological metamorphoses of bodies are established through the common experience of labor and the new technologies that have constitutive effects and ontological implications.
Lord Wilmot, Colonel Roscarrock, Colonel Blague, and some others, came in, and almost started back on seeing how strangely the king was metamorphosed.
Thea thought with a contempt that surprised her - like bizarre animals: metamorphosing creatures of the forest, not human at all.
Except in those individuals for whom these dark thoughts became real, metamorphosing into deed.
Clip returned from his survey of the exterior situation, metamorphosing to man-form.
It was a fascinated adherence of heart and soul, a metamorphosing appropriation.
Dostoyevsky describes could be the specific but relatively ordinary psychic state he felt at the beginning of the few fits which occurred when he was awake, transformed and idealised by the metamorphosing power of his genius.
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!
But as soon as the primacy of representation disappears, then the theory of discourse is dissociated, and one can encounter its disincarnated and metamorphosed form on two separate levels.
The intersection of Dauphine and Bienville still retained some of the character of the French Quarter Doodlebug remembered from his childhood, decades before most of the Quarter metamorphosed into a tarted-up tourism gold mine.
When the blast struck the Veil the hyperexcited ions metamorphosed into inert pebbles that dropped to the floor in an impotent clatter.
Count Condu, impeccably dressed, just-risen from the coff of eve, the Satin Doombox with its Spenglerian metamorphosed scravenings on the lid.
I confessed the deed and amused the company by the story of what had happened at Mantua with Oreilan, and how I had found Count Celi at Cesena metamorphosed into Count Alfani.