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English
Etymology
From meta- + morph + -ize.
Verb
metamorphize (third-person singular simple present metamorphizes, present participle metamorphizing, simple past and past participle metamorphized)
- (ambitransitive) 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: , →OCLC, page 1: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:
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