Dictionary entry

Metamorphose

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Met′a‐mor″phose (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Metamorphosed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Metamorphosing.] [Cf. F. métamorphoser.] To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.

And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.