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To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize. German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater.

arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.

Transforming or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressure; as, a step-down transformer.

Transforming or converting a low-pressure current into one of high pressure; as, a step-up transformer.

ion of two coils diagrammatically as a letter T, chiefly used as a connection for passing transformers. When the three free ends are connected to a source of three-phase current, two-phase current may be derived from the secondary circuits. The reverse arrangement may be used to transform from two-phase. -- T"-connecte…

A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

over, beyond, through and through, on the other side, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps; transform, to form through and through, that is, anew, transfigure.

To transfigure; to transform. [R.]

To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.

To change into another form; to transform. Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shak.

To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester. Sir W. Scott.

The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation. [Colloq.] Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. Thackeray.

To change into a different shape; to transform. [Colloq.] Fielding.

To move or change from one state into another; to transform. [Obs.] Spenser.

changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable. The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily transmutable into one another. Arbuthnot. -- Trans*mut"a*ble*ness, n. -- Trans*mut"a*bly, adv.

e species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism. Bacon. 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.

To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform. The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. Buckminster. Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. H. Smith.

To transfer or transform the nature of. [Obs.] We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.

To change from one species to another; to transform. [Obs.] Power to transpeciate a man into a horse. Sir T. Browne.

To change; to transform; to invert. [R.] Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Shak.