ppl. a. [f. TRANSFORM v. + -ED1.] Changed in form or character; in Math., altered in form, but not in value. (In quot. 1413, ‘misshapen.’)
In quot. 1571 applied to a solid figure modified by truncation of the solid angles (cf. TRANSFIGURED in same sense).
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), IV. xxiv. 70. Beres ben brought forthe al fowle and transformyd.
1571. Digges, Pantom., IV. Gg ij. A Transfourmed Cube is a figure geometrical enuironed with 6 equiangle Octogonall and 8 equilater triangular playnes or bases, whose sides are all equall. Ibid., Hh ij. A Transformed Dodecaedron.
1743. Emerson, Fluxions, 29. Proceed thus till the transform’d Fluxion be as simple as possible.
1841. Lane, Arab. Nts., I. 65, note. It was not imagined that this brute was the lost man in a transformed state.
1885. Watson & Burbury, Math. Th. Electr. & Magn., I. 157. By substituting the coordinates … and placing on corresponding elements the same charges, the transformed system will be in equilibrium.
1904. J. Oman, Vis. & Author., III. iii. 190. The first Apostles, the humble, loyal, transformed ambassadors of Christ.
