v. Now rare. [f. TRANS- + L. speciēs look, appearance, form, kind, SPECIES + -ATE3.] trans. To change into a different form or species; to transform.
1643. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., I. § 39. I do not credit … that the Devil hath a power to transpeciate a man into a Horse.
1694. Westmacott, Script. Herb. (1695), 77. Revived and transpeciated into a quite different and highly useful form.
1721. Bailey, Transpeciated,… changed from one species to another.
1894. G. S. Hall, in Forum (N.Y.), May, 309. There is no better test of educational institutions … than … how far the lower has been transpeciated into the higher.
Hence Transpecia’ion, transformation; change from one form or species into another.
1867. Maudsley, Physiol. Mind, 164. Transpeciation is a word used by Sir Thomas Brown which might be found useful at the present day. Ibid. (1870), Body & Mind, 175. For the exaltation and transpeciation of force and material. Ibid. (1883), Body & Will, II. iii. 132. First, that there has been what we may call a nisus of evolution in nature, and, secondly, that progressive transpeciations of matter have been events of it.
