v. Now rare. [f. TRANS- 2 + NATURE sb.] trans. To change the nature of.
1567. [see TRANSELEMENT].
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., I. (1879), 54. Their curiosity, and nicenes in apparell … transnatureth them, makinge them weake, tender and infirme.
1627. J. Carter, Plain Expos., 72. The Soule, being set as a great Empresse in the bodie of man, hath a Favourite or Minion, to which it hearkeneth, and after which it is carried, yea, is euen so changed, and (as it were) transnatured by it, that if it be heauenly, the Soule is likewise heauenly; if earthly it maketh in like manner, an earthly Soule.
1657. Reeve, God’s Plea, 156. Repentance … able to transnature and translate people.
1812–29. [see TRANSELEMENT].
Hence Transnaturation, change of nature. rare.
1873. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., viii. 280. Save by effecting a total transnaturation or stagnation of the human mind, how could a language be prevented from undergoing changes?
