Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characterized by transmutation.
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The bulk of the novel concerns the political structure of the race Walker and his companions meet after they leave the Sessrimathe's world, and the transmutative, sometimes disruptive effects caused by their arrival.
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The bulk of the novel concerns the political structure of the race Walker and his companions meet after they leave the Sessrimathe's world, and the transmutative, sometimes disruptive effects caused by their arrival.
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Sendivogius soon used up this powder, we are told, in effecting transmutations and cures, and, being fond of expensive living, he married Sethon's widow, in the hope that she was in the possession of the transmutative secret.
Bygone Beliefs 1969
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However, before his death, which occurred shortly afterwards, he presented him with an ounce of the transmutative powder.
Bygone Beliefs 1969
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Testimony; but in the mean while I have not beheld the transmutative
The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius
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However, before his death, which occurred shortly afterwards, he presented him with an ounce of the transmutative powder.
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Sendivogius soon used up this powder, we are told, in effecting transmutations and cures, and, being fond of expensive living, he married Sethon's widow, in the hope that she was in the possession of the transmutative secret.
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In 1589, the Emperor Rudolph imprisoned Kelley, the price of his freedom being the transmutative secret, or a substantial quantity of gold, at least, prepared by its aid.
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It also shows that a species might originate independently of the operation of any external influence; that change of structure would precede that of use and habit; that appetency, impulse, ambient medium, fortuitous fitness of surrounding circumstances, or a personified "selecting nature" would have had no share in the transmutative act.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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Music@Menlo's 2010 season-opening program celebrates music's transmutative power with landmark works by two of history's most unbridled compositional imaginations -- works that use vastly contrasting languages but share a common inspiration.
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