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2. Verb. (third-person singular of metamorphose) ¹

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Definition of Metamorphoses

1. metamorphosis [n] - See also: metamorphosis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metamorphoses

Literary usage of Metamorphoses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Zoölogy: Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution by Louis Agassiz, Augustus Addison Gould (1857)
"Vegetables also undergo metamorphoses, but with this essential difference, ... 368 The nature, the duration, and importance of metamorphoses, ..."

2. Principles of Zoology: Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution by Louis Agassiz, Augustus Addison Gould (1867)
"metamorphoses OF ANIMALS. 366. UNDER the name of metamorphoses are included ... Vegetables also undergo metamorphoses, but with this essential difference, ..."

3. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1904)
"amorous martyrology; and his metamorphoses discovered a rich mine of fable to the exhausted invention of the Trouvere. Nevertheless his works presented ..."

4. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1851)
"A note prefixed to this poem in Roscoe's ed. of Pope's Works informs us that " Sir Samuel Garth, who published the metamorphoses of Ovid, translated by ..."

5. An Introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy by Thomas Henry Green (1878)
"The Degenerations may be divided into two classes—-the metamorphoses and the ... These differ from the metamorphoses inasmuch as the new material which ..."

6. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1883)
"ON SOME PASSAGES OP OVID'S metamorphoses. AMONG the MSS of the metamorphoses of which no notice has as yet been taken is one in the Brit. Museum, Harl. ..."

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