a. [ad. med.L. transmūtātīv-us (Albertus Magnus, Metaphys., a. 1255), f. L. transmūtāt-, ppl. stem of transmūtāre to TRANSMUTE: see -IVE.] Having the quality of transmuting; tending to transmute; characterized by transmutation.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. vi. (1623), 502. The great Elixar … hath so transmutatiue a faculty, as to make Copper seeme Gold.
1781. Westm. Mag., IX. 73. A kind of coagulation which may be called transmutative.
1841. Hor. Smith, Moneyed Man, III. ii. 50. How little do we mark the effects of Time in ourselves; how suddenly and deeply are we struck by its transmutative touch in others.
1865. Grote, Plato, I. i. 5. A generative, motive, or transmutative force.
