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t. [ As if the fiery part of the candle were annihilated, or trans mutate, as some philosophers imagine, when the can dle goeth out, and were not fire and in action still. = Baxter , Dying Thoughts. transmutation (trans-mu-tā'shon), n. [ transmutacioun , trans mut a cion , F. trans mutation = Pr. trans mut a cio = Sp. transmuta cion, trasmutacion = Pg. transmutação It. trasmutazione , transmutatio (n-), a changing, a shifting, trans mut are , change, transmute: see transmute .] 1. The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; change into another substance, form, or nature. I seie to you truly that this is the hizeste maistrie that may be in transmutacioun of kynde, for rigt fewe lech is now lyuynge knowe this priuytee. Book of Quinte E ence (ed. Furnivall), p. 15. Within our experimental range of knowledge there is no transmutation of elements, and no destruction or creation of matter. A. Daniell , Prin. of Physics, p. 193. (a) In alchemy , the changing of baser metals into metals of greater value, especially into gold or silver. The conversion gold, or iron to copper. tion sake, transmutation. as if silver should be turned to is better called, for distinc Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 338. (b) In 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; transformation. (c) In biol., the change of one species into another by any means; trans pec i at i on; transformism. The history of the idea or of the fact runs parallel with that of transformism, from an early crude or vulgar notion akin to that involved in the alchemy of metals (see above) to the modern scientific conception of transmutation as an evolu tionary proce , or the gradual modification of one species into another by descent with modification through many generations. IMG:content-0747.png:[blocks in formation] As a palæontologist I have from the beginning stood aloof from this new theory of transmutation now so widely admitted by the scientific world. Aga iz, quoted in Dawson's Nature and the Bible, [App. B, p. 241. 2. Succe ive change; alternation; interchange. This wrecched worldes transmutacioun , As wele or wo, now poure and now honour. Chaucer, Fortune, 1. 1. And the constant change and transmutation Of action and of contemplation. Long fellow, Golden Legend, iii. Transmutation glaze, a name given to certain porcelain glazes which have an iridescent changeable luster. = Syn. 1. See transform, v. t. a letter or a memorial; to transmit despatches. Whatever they learn and know is transmitted from one to another. Bacon, Fable of Perseus. To solicite this Peace, Peter Reuben the famous rich Painter of Antwerp as Agent was transmitted hither. H. L'Estrange, Reign of K. Charles (ed. 1655), p. 106. Resolving to transmit to posterity not only their names and blood, but their principles also. D. Webster, Speech, Concord, Sept. 30, 1834. 2. To suffer to pa through; conduct. A love which pure from soul to soul might pa , As light transmitted through a crystal gla . Dryden , Tyrannic Love, v. 1. The shell of sense, growing daily thinner and more IMG:content-0748.png:[blocks in formation] [ Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 43. transmuet (trans-mū'), v . t. See transmew . transmutability (trans-mu-ta-bil'i-ti), n. transmutable + -ity (see -bility ).] The property of being transmutable; susceptibility of change into another nature or substance; trans mutablene . transmutable (trans-mū'ta-bl), a. [ Pa ionate Bevel-gear transmitting dynamometer. Same as balance- dynamometer. transmittable (trans-mit'a-bl), a. [ transmittal (trans-mit'al), n. [ transmuted, or changed into a different substance, or into something of a different form or nature. Oure 5 e encie is the instrument of alle vertues of thing transmutable if the i be putt in it, encree ynge an hundrid foold her worchingis. Book of Quinte E ence (ed. Furnivall), p. 14. [ Naturalists, being convinced by him [Darwin] as they had not been by the trans mutationists of fifty years' earlier date, were compelled to take an entirely new view of the significance of all attempts at framing a "natural" cla ification. Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 809. transmutative (trans-mū'ta-tiv), a. [ It is this conception which later developed into the theory of an actual transmutative development of lower into higher organisms. Encyc. Brit ., XXIV. 815. transmute (trans-mut'), v. t.; pret. and pp. transmuted, ppr.transmuting. [ transmute Lord, what an alchymist art thou, whose skill Transmutes to perfect good from perfect ill! 6436 trans pa Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy and a moon Jane Austen, Mans field Park, xvi. of gun-carriages, whence the terms transom- Quarles, Emblems, iv. 4. plates , transom - bolts , etc.-8. In surv ., a piece light lake in Cumber land. of wood made to slide upon a cro -staff; the vane of a cro -staff. - Deck-transom, a beam or framework acro the stem of a ve el, supporting the after part of the deck. A state of feeling in which the reasons which had acted on her conscience seemed to be transmuted into mere self George Eliot, Mill on the Flo , vi. 13. regard. =Syn. Metamorphose, etc. See transform . transmuted (trans-mü'ted), p . a. 1. Changed into another substance, form, or nature.-2. In her ., same as counterchanged .