The Only Use of
transmute
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.†
p. 49.1
Definition:
to change completely in appearance or elemental nature