Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRANS-FORM-A'TION
TRANS-FORM-A'TION, n.
- The act or operation of changing the form or external appearance.
- Metamorphosis; change of form in insects; as from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
- Transmutation; the change of one metal into another, as of copper or tin into gold.
- The change of the soul into a divine substance, as among the mystics.
- Transubstantiation.
- In theology, a change of heart in man, by which his disposition and temper are conformed to the divine image; a change from enmity to holiness and love.
- In algebra, the change of an equation into one of a different form, but of equal value. Cyc.
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