transpeciate
English
Etymology
From trans- + Latin species (“form”).
Verb
transpeciate (third-person singular simple present transpeciates, present participle transpeciating, simple past and past participle transpeciated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To change from one species into another; to transform.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- power to transpeciate a man into a horse
- Sir Thomas Browne
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for transpeciate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)