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noun

Transmutation n.

The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.

(Geom.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square. (R.)

(Biol.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism.

Transmutation of metals (Alchem.), the conversion of base metals into gold or silver, a process often attempted by the alchemists. See Alchemy, and Philosopher's stone, under Philosopher.

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... with the girl that is next one; And, pour passer le temps, with the terminus all but in prospect, Talk of eternal ties and marriages made in heaven. Ah, did we really accept with a perfect heart the illusion! Ah, did we really believe that the Present indeed is the Only! Or through all transmutation, all shock and convulsion of passion, Feel we could carry undimmed, unextinguished, the light of our knowledge! But for his funeral train which the bridegroom sees in the distance, Would he so joyfully, think you, fall in with the marriage ...

— Amours de Voyage • Arthur Hugh Clough

... lower and the triumph of the middle classes. Last of all came the successful realization of a national state. But in England nationalism came first; then under Edward the economic revolution; and lastly, under the Puritans, the transmutation of ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... is a sepulcher of flowers, Whose vitalizing mold Through boundless transmutation towers, In green ...

— Bitter-Sweet • J. G. Holland

... immersed in nature as to be not its intelligent guide, but only its unconscious soul; the whole universe proceeding according to an order which is just as much above God's knowledge as above ours. Now, the best geologists assure us that there is no evidence in support of the transmutation of species. Mr. Darwin's theory of the formation of species by natural selection is this: In the struggle for life, the strongest and best adapted animal lives, the rest die. This animal transmits ...

— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke

... are buried? For as here the change and resolution of dead bodies into another kind of subsistence (whatsoever it be;) makes place for other dead bodies: so the souls after death transferred into the air, after they have conversed there a while, are either by way of transmutation, or transfusion, or conflagration, received again into that original rational substance, from which all others do proceed: and so give way to those souls, who before coupled and associated unto bodies, now begin ...

— Meditations • Marcus Aurelius

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