metamorphize

From meta- +‎ morph +‎ -ize.

metamorphize (third-person singular simple present metamorphizes, present participle metamorphizing, simple past and past participle metamorphized)

1. (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:

• metamorphization

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “metamorphize”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “metamorphize”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.