transmogrification Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one)
    • the transmogrification of the prince into a porcupine

WordNet

Trans*mog`ri*fi*ca"tion noun
Definitions
  1. The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation. Colloq.
    Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. Thackeray.

Webster 1913