To change; to alter; to metamorphose. A low word. It is provincial in the North of England, and in Craven Districts.--Glossaries of Carr and Brockett.
Some friends of John's, who at him now
Had tuk a squint, they cried,
"Sen' John's kep comp'ny with that gal,
He's quite tranmogrified."--Essex Dialect, Noakes and Styles.
See social life and glee sit down
All joyous and unthinking,
Till quite transmogrifed they're grown,
Debauchery and drinking.--Burns.
I went to the calaboose to see my friend, Joe Head, and found him transmogrified into Mounsheer Tate.--Crockett, Tour, p. 146.