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He is an effective ferment of goodness, a slow transmuter of the earthly into a more heavenly order.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

Kṛishṇa is undoubtedly associated with life, growth and generation, but so is Śiva the destroyer, or rather the transmuter.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

You're my response, my reality, my glorification, my transmuter into a god.

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von

He is described by Scott as "a noble transmuter of gold into lead."

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

Warburton's explanation of this expression is, that "there was two stones, one of which was a universal medicine and the other a transmuter of base metals into gold."

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John