transmutation

How To Use transmutation In A Sentence

• The idea of transmutation through alchemy was one that was taken quite seriously and Dee was granted special rights far beyond someone of his standing.
• Among the alchemists's asserted aims were the transmutation of base metals into gold, as well as the preparation of an elixir of longevity and a universal cure for illness.
• The heart-wrenching transmutation of a once calm but stern voice into an almost bird-like cry of despair infected the surrounding cages like an air-borne virus.
• Alchemical symbolism permeates several of Shakespeare's plays; King Lear in particular has been interpreted as an allegory of alchemical transmutation.
• The principal transmutation facilities, ones that only eliminate allomorphism ... are located on Haluk planets. Perseus Spur
• The transmutation was variously an end in itself, a means by which to make an elixir of life, and a route to the creation of a panacea, or universal medicine.
• The transmutation of base metal to gold was the paradigm of this sacred task.
• The aesthetical transmutation of the pan - media era is closely associated with the new media technology.
• The primary qualities, being the general laws or forms of organic Energy-transmutation, are in a higher sense ideal, for they are the necessary conditions under which both sense-presentation and ideative representation proceed. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
• He seeks symbols for his tragic inner transmutations in the external world.