transmew

present singular third person transmews · participle present transmewing · participle past transmewed · past transmewed

1. obsoleteTo transmute, change.

   Soone into other fits he was transmewed, / Till she to him her gratious speach renewed […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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   […] his sudden ruin ministered matter of most lamentable tears to his dear mother and loving sisters, insomuch, that they were pitifully changed, as some write, into alder trees, as some, into poplars. Sic flevit Clymene : sic et Clymeneides alta: as it might be the mournful church, and her wailing members, wofully transmewed into alders or poplars.

   1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation; or, A New Praise of the Old Ass, published 1815, pages 97–98