Transmute Definition

trăns-myo͝ot, trănz-
transmuted, transmutes, transmuting
verb
transmuted, transmutes, transmuting
To change from one form, species, condition, nature, or substance into another; transform; convert.
Webster's New World
To undergo transmutation.
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Origin of Transmute

  • Middle English transmuten from Latin trānsmūtāre trāns- trans- mūtāre to change mei-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin transmutare, from trans + mutare.

    From Wiktionary

Transmute Sentence Examples

  • They set about trying to transmute iron into gold to fund their regeneration of Europe.

  • The plan came to nothing, and next year Becher was again busy at Vienna, trying to transmute Danube sand into gold, and writing his Theses chemicae veritatem transmutationis metallorum evincentes.

  • The efforts of life eventually transmute the ignoble into illustrious nobility.

  • Roger Bacon - or more probably some one who usurped his name - declared that with a certain amount of the philosopher's stone he could transmute a million times as much base metal into gold, and on Raimon Lull was fathered the boast, " Mare tingerem si mercurius esset."

  • Such a teacher can make silk purses out of pigs ' ears, transmute lead into gold can even use Headway to effect.

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