| He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world. |
| He could transmute wispy ideas into detailed plans and turn revolutionary dreams into enduring realities. |
| The alchemists of old sought to transmute base metals into gold and to invent a potion that would confer immortality. |
| Attempts to transmute other metals to gold may have been made as long ago as the Bronze Age. |
| In his analyses, the rubric becomes a sort of mystical triangle whose terms seem perpetually to transmute into one another. |
| In alchemy, the production of the Philosopher's Stone that could transmute lead to gold, and confer immortality. |
