or transmigrify, verb. (old).—To transform, change, alter, or ‘new vamp’ (B. E. and GROSE). Also, as subs., TRANSMOGRIFICATION.
1728. FIELDING, Love in Seveval Masques, v. 4. I begin to think myself in Don Quixotte’s case, and that some wicked enchanters have TRANSMOGRIFIED my Dulcinea.
1751–4. JORTIN, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, i. 254. Augustine seems to have had a small doubt whether Apuleius was really TRANSMOGRAPHIED into an ass.
1777. FOOTE, The Trip to Calais [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, ii. 187. There is the curious TRANSMOGRIFY].
1836. M. SCOTT, Tom Cringle’s Log, iii. Jonathan … let drive his whole broadside: and fearfully did it TRANSMOGRIFY us.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Lay of St. Aloys.’ The TRANSMOGRIFIED Pagan perform’d his vow.
1884. The Nation, 20 March, 250. 2. But of all restorations, reparations, and TRANSMOGRIFICATIONS, that inflicted upon the ‘Cnidian Venus’ of the Vatican is the most grotesque.
