How To Use Transmute In A Sentence
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Since I would go to Tibet if I chose, but could not transmute dustballs into gold under any circumstances, only the first course of action is in this sense a possibility for me.
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As early as the third century, Chinese alchemists used formulations of mercury as elixirs and attempted to transmute other substances into gold to use the gold as an elixir to prolong life.
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The former must explain how thunderbots are transmuted into sharp pieces of silex., the latter how 'natural stones, rocks, and minerals [...] grow in the earth'.
Stone Tools and Arguments Against Design
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Indeed, Moulsworth vows to transmute the faulty model provided by the Biblical Martha, the archetypal busy housewife: Moulsworth plans to "dight" (or make ready) her "Inward house" (l. 19) and thus prepare an appropriate habitation for Christ.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
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The conventional image of Paracelsus himself as the ultimate mystic who sought to transmute base metals into gold and to create homunculi must be re-evaluated.
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Like so many other beauty products, styling treatments have come a long, long way: 20 years ago there were products that, when dry, transmuted into white flakes of dandruff.
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It's a text, it has to be said, that is not so much translated — Pound's Chinese "translations" are notoriously inaccurate, though accuracy as such was hardly the point — as derived, paraphrased, transmuted from the eighth-century source (by way of professors Fenollosa, Mori, and Ariga) into a new and startlingly powerful, startlingly alive, English poem.
Ezra Pound, “Lament of the Frontier Guard”
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In the US, however, the European pastoral ideal, rooted in Virgil's bucolic visions of an unchanging Arcadia of shepherds and shepherdesses, has been transmuted by the capitalistic impetus.
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This shadow transmutes into wisdom by letting go of your self-importance and experiencing the enriching depth, expansiveness, and abundance of all life with equanimity.
C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
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Meanwhile, traditional Range Rover cues are transmuted into styling gold: The blacked-out rocker panels and lower bumper clips, the clamshell hood with a cutline running from the narrow LED headlamps to a pectoral hood vent, the integrated front and rear treadplates, the integrated running boards, the defined wheel arches.
Evoque: A Range Rover for a Smaller Era
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There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages.
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2 One of the most suggestive formulations is Elizabeth Fay's: "If William's picturesque belongs to the valley and bower, the sacred grove is where he situates the meeting of the picturesque and the beautiful with the sublime, a meeting that transmutes the feminine into the transcendent and brings the masculine sublimity of mountains home to pasture" (184). close window
Notes
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She ceased to think, as anger transmuted into passion.
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Here we see Machiavelli's legacy transmuted in Hobbes's philosophy of power.
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The park being cunningly transmuted from the unreal to the real, by sinister forces.
Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives
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In former times it was thought that ordinary metal could be transmuted into gold.
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We can transmute water power into electric power.
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And the American dream that wealth transmutes success into happiness always ends in bitter disappointment.
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Subsequently, Dippel turned to alchemy and claimed to have discovered a secret formula by which he transmuted silver and mercury into pure gold.
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It is impossible to transmute base metals into gold.
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It is this strange experience, says Rumi, which transmutes man into his own deepest nature, into the fundament of his self.
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We can transmute water power into electrical power.
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He realizes faintly that he can change them by an effort of will and "transmute" them into mental states of an exactly opposite nature.
The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga
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Such a society will see reality as something to be improved upon, perfected, transmuted into images.
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The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do.
NEVERWHERE
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What was unassuming and harmless suddenly becomes ironic, transmuted into that elusive thing we call ‘art.’
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That system transmutes disaster into mass death.
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Pacioli believed that stereotomy, the careful 'geometrizing' of stone through cutting and polishing, could transmute and spiritualize lowly matter, evoking St. John's Heavenly Jersualem made of 'pure gold resembling pure glass.'
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Perhaps you can pay the surcharge in lead and someone in the back will transmute it into gold.
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We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion.
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-- that one word, you dog, will explain the mystery -- will show you why I am thus transmuted, TRANSMOGRIFIED, and in 'a state of betweenity. '
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
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It is the open sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
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The final measure vividly transmutes the symphony's opening theme (full of upward fourths) to an idea both melodic and harmonically cadential and thus brings the work to a great, substantial close.
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It is a great task to transmute feeling and sensation into speech, written or spoken, that will, in turn, in him who reads or listens, transmute itself back into the selfsame feeling and sensation.
Chapter 14
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I take all of this lead and transmute it, by my art, into finest gold…
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First I empty IE's folder completely, than I "transmute", than I remove a few Mozilla-only bookmarklets, et voila. psycros
Fileforum
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I may decoct an essence in yonder furnace that will transmute the basest metal into gold.
From Jest to Earnest
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His slightest frown might perturb them, his anger terrify them, his command compel them to certain death; yet, on the other hand, not one of them would have dreamed of addressing him otherwise than intimately by his first name, which name, "Hardman," was transmuted by their tongues into Kanaka
THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
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Pacioli believed that stereotomy, the careful 'geometrizing' of stone through cutting and polishing, could transmute and spiritualize lowly matter, evoking St. John's Heavenly Jersualem made of 'pure gold resembling pure glass.'
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Indeed, history itself is often not taught, being dumped instead into the soft-study mishmash called social studies or transmuted into half-baked courses in civics.
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Others purported to have transmuted metals or concocted elixirs and sold their recipes to others.
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We are marvelously constructed of those transmuted elements borne within the fiery athanors of long dead Super Suns.
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It continues to run on the goggle-box and now has transmuted into a stage show.
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It appears we either have been transmuted to an obvious plutocracy - or worse, a fascist dictatorship.
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The only purpose of the interposition of the taxpayer company was to transmute the base metal of an exchange loss on capital account into the pure gold of a revenue loss.
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For profit -- his life blood transmuted into a wine-supper, or a jewelled gewgaw, or some similar sense-orgy of the parasitic and idle rich, his masters, the arch-beasts. '
Chapter 6: Adumbrations
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As more heat is applied, the liquid molecules begin to dance ever faster and eventually transmute to an invisible gas—water vapor.
Manifesting Michelangelo
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The arrow-like pointedness of jealousy is transmuted into efficient action.
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Past experiences leave corresponding traces in mental space, suggesting how the mind retains but transmutes its sensory sources.
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It would become incompatible with his organization, or rather it would 'transmute' it, and the process of that transmutation to the senses of other men would be called
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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Our high desires for spiritual reality are transmuted into the sordid quest for consumerism and materialism.
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Although Albertus believed in the truth of transmutation himself, he remained skeptical of the "transmuted" metals he had seen, since the artificial product had not been able to withstand the heat of the fire.
Alchemy
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I am benighted, bewildered, taken with art-magic, transmuted, TRANSMOGRIFIED, not myself nor yet another, but, as they say in Mississippi, 'a sort of betweenity. '
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
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Transmuted through the deep-fat fryer, it taints the air in every city and town.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, oh, how the garbage is sanitised and transmuted by the alchemy of the machine!
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In the hands of the Latin American magical realist, Gauguin's story has been transmuted into a lush story of frenzy, in vivid chromatic colours.
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Sexual self-denial, instead of leading to sublimation, may lead to nervous disorder when the erotic tension, failing to find a natural outlet and not sublimated to higher erotic or non-erotic ends in the real world, is transmuted into an unreal dreamland, thus undergoing what Jung terms introversion; while there are also the people already referred to, in whom immature childish sexuality persists into an adult stage of development it is no longer altogether in accord with, so that conflict, with various possible trains of nervous symptoms, may result.
On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
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Alchemists, the tales go, sought to use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold.
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The Goddess also figures prominently in alchemy in its concern with primal matter, the primal matrix from which all else may be transmuted.
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Transmuted through the deep-fat fryer, it taints the air in every city and town.
Times, Sunday Times
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Greek deified nature, not being able to diabolize it; still he knew that it must be ruled and transmuted by mind.
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
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The influx of foreign students in the early 1970s transmuted the lives of Kathakali artistes who had known until then only indigence.
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Scientists transmuted matter into pure energy and exploded the first atomic bomb.
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Energy transmutes into matter and vice versa.
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Vastu architecture transmutes the individual rhythm of the indweller to the rhythm of the Universal Being.
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These arrows, by the compiler, Vincent de Beauvais, are again transmuted into gold.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Like the Stone, the Elixir could transmute base metals to gold.
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You transmute your shadow into wisdom by waking up and letting go of doubt, sloth, and stupor.
C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
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He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
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We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion.
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Elements of occultism were reflected in claims of ability to prolong life and transmute metals.
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The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do.
NEVERWHERE
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I brew potions and can occasionally transmute lead to gold.
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A believer in or practitioner of a system of pseudoscientific thought that held that "base" metals like lead could be changed, or "transmuted, " into gold.
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For we transmuted the vernacular word "altruism" to a quite different technical sense — and then solved the technical issue, leaving the human phenomenon (for which the word was invented) quite unresolved.
'Confusion Over Evolution': An Exchange
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As John Judis has argued, the neocons simply transmuted one kind of radicalism into another kind -- from dialectically determined Bolshevism to dialectically determined "democratism.
James Pinkerton: When Art is Cooler -- and More Conservative -- Than Politics
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Somewhere within her, responsive notes were answering to the things without, forgotten and undreamed-of correspondences were being renewed; and she was aware of it in an incurious way, and her soul was troubled, but she was not equal to the mental exultation necessary to transmute and understand.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR
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He proposed that, if elements combine to form compounds with other than a one-to-one ratio of atoms, the multiplicities be denoted by superscripted numbers, later transmuted to subscripts.
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Medieval alchemists attempted to transmute base metals into gold.
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The sniffles I have been nursing since July have transmuted into pure flu, as lead transmutes into gold.
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The sky was blossoming into stars above the afterglow; out to the east the moon was rising, and the sea beneath it was a thing of radiance and silver and glamour; and a little harbour boat that went sailing across it was transmuted into an elfin shallop from the coast of fairyland.
Chronicles of Avonlea
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The city was engulfed by shock transmuted into compassion, grief and mourning.
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The meat of them has been transmuted in the alembic of
Chapter 35
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The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do.
NEVERWHERE
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The elixir is the Philosopher's Stone, the object which will transmute base metals into silver and gold, but also has the power of restoring health, curing all diseases.
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Anthony Storr shows how these depressive fears were magically transmuted in the literary sphere.
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It is impossible to transmute base metals into gold.
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For additional information about the energy of Tevet, along with meditations, teachings and exercises on how to transmute anger and negativity, please read my book Kabbalah Month by Month.
This Month; A Kabbalic View of Tevet
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Those who have investigated with perhaps "an excess" -- as Wordsworth would say -- "of scrupulosity" all the details of Pickwickian topography are inclined to believe that the wooden bridge, upon which the chaise hired by the Club to make the journey from Rochester to Dingley Dell came hopelessly to grief, was Aylesford Bridge, transmuted for the nonce from Kentish ragstone into timber.
Dickens-Land
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He saw the true gold into which the beggarly matter of existence may be transmuted by spagyric art; a succession of delicious moments, all the rare flavors of life concentrated, purged of their lees, and preserved in a beautiful vessel.
The Hill of Dreams
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Suddenly, the people we used to call postmen have transmuted into the indie, sarnie and luvvie class.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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When you transmute matter in any way, he said, you inevitably release energy in the form of heat.
Manifesting Michelangelo
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The alchemists of today are those nuclear chemists who routinely transmute uranium to plutonium by bombarding uranium with neutrons.
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In alchemy, the production of the Philosopher's Stone that could transmute lead to gold, and confer immortality.
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Though despair at his material sometimes makes him bellow, he gives a bravura performance that transmutes pointlessness into poignancy.
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We can transmute water power into electric power.
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We can transmute water power into electrical power.
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His younger brother Paul, however, has transmuted from true-blue Tory to one of Labour's boys.
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Scientists transmuted matter into pure energy and exploded the first atomic bomb.
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She ceased to think, as anger transmuted into passion.
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Now, the stomach is like a crucible, for it hath a chemical kind of virtue to transmute one body into another, to transsubstantiate fish and fruits into flesh within and about us; but tho it be questionable whether I wear the same flesh which is fluxible, I am sure my hair is not the same, for you may remember I went flaxen-haired out of
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
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No, they had been transmuted, that is all, transmuted by the alchemy of Weathersfield, by the personality of
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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The lower cell of each of the two fertile anthers, which is much reduced and different from the superior even in _Salvia officinalis_, is transmuted in other _salviæ_ into an organ (nectarotheca) having a very different form and function, and finally disappears entirely in _Salvia verticillata_.
On the Genesis of Species
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Robert was especially taken with the stories that had grown up around the alchemist Nicholas Flamel, who it was said had transmuted mercury to silver half a millennium earlier.
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The 1970s was a period when the Powellism of the 1960s came to suffuse the social fabric, and was gradually consolidated and transmuted into the Thatcherism of the 1980s.
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The ‘new’ had transmuted into the old almost overnight.
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He could transmute wispy ideas into detailed plans and turn revolutionary dreams into enduring realities.
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Returning an artifact you control to its owner's hand is part of the cost of Master Transmuter 's activated ability. Paying a cost can't be responded to (with Naturalize, for example).
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No, they had been transmuted, that is all, transmuted by the alchemy of Weathersfield, by the personality of Theodore Watling into brighter visions.
A Far Country — Complete
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To do this, he mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world.
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Beyond debate, as far as name goes, here is a kind of transmuted suggestion.
Modern Religious Cults and Movements
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Furthermore, although I've only been able to "transmute" recently, my friend, who has been playing for over a year, has commented that her transmutes for arcanite consistently fetch 3-5G.
Deflation in WoW?
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The hard light from the overhead fluorescent strip was transmuted by the jewellery, which lay there in greenish-yellow glory.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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For we transmuted the vernacular word "altruism" to a quite different technical sense — and then solved the technical issue, leaving the human phenomenon (for which the word was invented) quite unresolved.
'Confusion Over Evolution': An Exchange
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Alchemists never transmuted metals, never found a panacea, and never discovered the fountain of youth.
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This sense of connectedness, it has been suggested, is transmuted beyond the individualistic to the universal in spiritual individuals, manifested in a compassionate concern for all humankind.
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Yet the device which makes the main space so ethereal is the west wall, 30m square, and designed to transmute day and sunlight into the luminous blue which transfuses the whole place.
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Facts transmuted in the alembic of hope into terms of faith.
Chapter 37
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Then, as the acous - tics of the vast space allowed the ululations to rise through the eight heavily glyphed columns girdling Mudra's dance floor, sound was magically transmuted into music-an ear - piercing, pulse-pounding, adrenaline-rush type of thing, but still rife with melody, harmonies-plus, you could dance to it.
Second Skin
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In former times it was thought that ordinary metal could be transmuted into gold.