transmove

From trans- +‎ move.

transmove (third-person singular simple present transmoves, present participle transmoving, simple past and past participle transmoved)

1. (chiefly obsolete, poetic) To move or change from one state into another; to transform.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     That to a centaure did himselfe transmove

   • 1887(?), "Verses commemorating the Death of Marquette, May 18, 1675", in United States Catholic Historical Magazine, page 413:

     The spring-time sky above their head, / Whose island clouds the breezes led / To far-off, western, boundless plain / And there transmoved to needed rain; […]

   • 2007 January 3, Marion Wells, The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance, page 249:

     The emphasis throughout these ekphrastic stanzas on a god's transforming or "transmoving" himself into a bestial form in order to embrace a beloved mortal woman might usefully be glossed by Ficino's central statement about the conditions that create melancholic love :  […]

   • 2024 July 7, Mary Mallia, A Return to the Heart of Love A Collection of Poems, #1, Mary Mallia, →ISBN:

     Time's of the essence, get a move / on, to this state of bliss - transmove.

• “transmove”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

trānsmovē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of trānsmoveō