I cannot believe "transmogrify" is a real verb

[theBB]

I always thought "transmogrify" was a made up "Calvin and Hobbes" word, but I came across it while I was reading an editorial. Then I checked it on Merriam-Webster and it turned out to be the real thing. Unbelievable... Maybe, I should have learned this when I was studying for SAT or GRE... Anyways, I am just quite surprised...

[WildCowboy]

Yes, in fact the word (spelled "transmografide") can be traced back to at least the year 1656.

[Counterfit]

Verbing weirds language.

[thedude110]

Paul Celan (http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/celan/) was the master of verbing nouns.

If anything, the 20th century decided that nouns don't exist, and when they do exist, they're awfully violent.

[bousozoku]

You can find google, googled in the dictionary (and a lot of other things) so why should transmogrify be any different? Besides, it had been used long before Calvin and Hobbes.