Noah Webster
Metamorphic
METAMORPH'IC
METAMORPH'OSE, verb transitive [Gr. over, beyond, and form.] To change into a different form; to transform; particularly, to change the form of insects, as from the larva to a winged animal. The ancients pretended that Jupiter was metamorphosed into a bull, and Lycaon into a wolf.
And earth was metamorphosed into man.