transmove

verb

transmove

verb

Etymology From trans- + move.

1

Obsolete, Poetic To move or change from one state into another; to transform.

  • That to a centaure did himselfe transmove1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  • The spring-time sky above their head, / Whose island clouds the breezes led / To far-off, western, boundless plain / And there transmoved to needed rain; […]1887(?), "Verses commemorating the Death of Marquette, May 18, 1675", in United States Catholic Historical Magazine, page 413
2 more examples
  • The emphasis throughout these ekphrastic stanzas on a god's transforming or "transmoving" himself into a bestial form in order to embrace a beloved mortal woman might usefully be glossed by Ficino's central statement about the conditions that create melancholic love : […]2007 January 3, Marion Wells, The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance, page 249:
  • Time's of the essence, get a move / on, to this state of bliss - transmove.2024 July 7, Mary Mallia, A Return to the Heart of Love A Collection of Poems, #1, Mary Mallia, →ISBN:

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