ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Changed in form or nature; altered; transformed.

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1749.  Johnson, Van. Hum. Wishes, ad fin. Patience, sov’reign o’er transmuted ill.

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1805–6.  Cary, Dante’s Inf., XXIX. 35. Who forged transmuted metals by the power Of alchemy.

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1871.  Tyndall, Fragm. Sc. (1879), II. ix. 183. Its matter is for the most part transmuted gas.

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  † b.  Her. Of a charge on a field of two tinctures: Having the tinctures of the field reversed; = COUNTERCHANGED. Obs.

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1486.  Bk. St. Albans, Her., f ij. He berith quarterly Sable and Siluer with a Cheueron of the sayd colowris transmutit.

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1572.  Bossewell, Armorie, II. 29. I terme these lyons transmuted because ye lyon first placed in ye fielde, is Sable, in Or, and the other is Or, in Sable.

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c. 1828.  in Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Gloss.

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