rare. [f. TRANS- 1 + L. mens, ment- mind + -ATION; rendering Gr. μετάνοια afterthought, repentance. Cf. mentation and mod. 16th-c. L. transmentātio (Goclenius in Du Cange).] Change of mind or thinking; mental conversion.
1647. Trapp, Comm. 2 Cor. vii. 9. That ye sorrowed to repentance Gr. To a transmentation, to a thorow change both of the minde and manners.
1657. Reeve, God’s Plea, 63. Where there is μετάνοια, a new brayning, or a transmentation.
1835. J. Harris, Gt. Teacher (1837), 181. Repentance, transmentation, a change of mind, was the indispensable condition of enrolment.
