metamorphists

Noun

metamorphist (plural metamorphists)

1. One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into God when he ascended.
   • I would you did but see what I have seene in these Conntries, as concerning the deadly hatreds, contentions & differensions of Luther has of-fspring: as of the Muntzerans, Anabaptists, Adamists, […] Metamorphists, Iudaists, Neutersacramentaries, Image-breakers, […], & of such like: al which have...1604, George Abbot, The Reasons which Doctour Hill Hath Brought for the Upholding of Papistry, page 97
2. One who believes that some species were not part of the original creation but arose as the transformed souls of sinners.
   • Concerning the progeny of the transfigured sinners, Muslim scholars split into two groups, which Cook figuratively designated as "creationists" and "metamorphists.” The former held that swine and monkeys were created in the form they exist today, whereas the latter believed that their contemporary...2022, Pavel Pavlovitch, Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875): The Sceptical Traditionalist, page 121
3. (historical) A proponent of one side of an early geological controversy in the late 19th and early 20th century who held that differences between various nonsedimentary rocks and minerals could be explained by metamorphic processes rather than the opposing viewpoint that these differences resulted from cooling of different types of magma.
   • I am inclined to hold that there is a wide segment of truth embodied in the views of the metamorphists; but there seems to be also a segment of truth on the other side ; and so I must likewise hold with their antagonists, that there existed long periods in the history of the earth in which there...1876, Hugh Miller, Sketch-book of Popular Geology, page 233
4. A metamorphic rock.
   • Various grades of metamorphist up to staurolite-sillimanite rocks, are present in the formation.1965, The American Journal of Science - Volume 263, Issues 1-5, page 5
5. One who undergoes transformation to take on various forms.
   • The sun was the grand Proteus, the universal metamorphist.1823, Constantin-François Volney, The Ruins, Or, A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires, page 209
6. One who believes in social transformation.
   • Marx was a metamorphist, as well as a realist. He believed social relations pass through a series of material forms before becoming social relations once more.1999, Richard Marsden, The Nature of Capital: Marx After Foucault, page 123

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