transmewとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

transmew (三人称単数 現在形 transmews, 現在分詞 transmewing, 過去形および過去分詞形 transmewed)

1. (obsolete) To transmute, change.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 2, canto 3:

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

   • 1593, Harvey, Gabriel, Pierce's Supererogation; or, A New Praise of the Old Ass‎^[1], published 1815, pages 97–98:

     […] 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.