[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who or that which transmutes.

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1826.  Scott, Diary, 4 June, in Lockhart. The translator of Tasso and Ariosto, and in that capacity a noble transmuter of gold into lead.

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1870.  Lowell, My Study Wind., 254. Chaucer exposes the cheats of the transmuter of metals.

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