I’ve never seen an etymology for this word. Does anyone have information about its history?
The online AHD lists transmogrify (To change into a different shape or form, especially one that is fantastic or bizarre) as Origin Unknown. I first saw it used in the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip and assumed it was a made-up word.
Where’s Grant with his trusty OED? :D
Regards//Larry &&&&“Her heart was as cold as a stone at the bottom of a mountain lake.”)&& Travis McGee on Bonita Hersch, Nightmare in Pink (John D. MacDonald)
From the Online Etymology Dictionary:
transmogrify - 1656, apparently a perversion of transmigure, from transmigrate.
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more… and realize that men’s hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words. - JRR Tolkien
