transmute
verb (used with or without object)
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
transmuter
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a word derived from
transmute.
Example Sentences
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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 John Phin
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 Sir Charles Eliot
Nor would it be fair to the man who, whatever his occasional extravagances and absurdities, was yet a great designer and a great transmuter, to pretend that all his Chinese designs were contemptible.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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 William James
The something—old as time, yet new as birth—that great transmuter of affection into love, of hope into faith.
From Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners
