资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Metamorphose \Met`a*mor"phose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Metamorphosed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Metamorphosing}.] [Cf. F.
   m['e]tamorphoser.]
   To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.

         And earth was metamorphosed into man.    --Dryden.