metamorphize
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From meta- + morph + -izeCategory:English terms prefixed with meta-#MORPHCategory:English terms suffixed with -ize#METAMORPHIZE.
Verb
metamorphize (third-person singular simple present metamorphizes, present participle metamorphizing, simple past and past participle metamorphized)Category:English lemmas#METAMORPHIZECategory:English verbs#METAMORPHIZECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#METAMORPHIZECategory:Pages with entries#METAMORPHIZECategory:Pages with 1 entry#METAMORPHIZE
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#METAMORPHIZECategory:English intransitive verbs#METAMORPHIZE) To transform or change; metamorphose.
- 1628, William Prynne, The Vnlouelinesse, of Louelockes. Or, A Summarie Discourse, Proouing: The Wearing, and Nourishing of a Locke, or Loue-locke, to be Altogether Vnseemely, and Vnlawfull unto Christians. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 1:
- [T]hoſe Laſciuious, Immodeſt, VVhoriſh, or vngodly Faſhions, and Attires, vvhich Metamorphiſe, and Transforme, our Light, and Giddie Females of the Superior and Gentile ranke, into ſundry Antique, Horred, and Out-landiſh ſhapes, from day, to day: […]Category:English terms with quotations#METAMORPHIZE
Derived terms
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “metamorphize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “metamorphize”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.