transexion en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /tɹænˈsɛkʃən/
- /tɹɑːnˈsɛkʃən/
Etymology
From tran- + Latin sexus (“sex”) + -ion.
Meanings
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(countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable) Change of sex.
But surely it much impeacheth this iterated transexion of hares, if that be true which Cardan and other physicians affirm, that transmutation of sex is only so in opinion; and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first […]
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:Albert Engleman, 'Un cas de transposition de sexes', Revue Métapsychique, no. 27 (January-February 1954): 126-128; Albert Engleman, 'A Case of Transexion upon Viewing a Painting', American Imago: A Psychoanalytic Journal for the Arts and Sciences 9, no. 3/4
2019 February 21, Jake Poller, Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, →ISBN:[…] transexion or change from female to male, and hence "from imperfection to perfection"; the transmutation of species in closely allied animals and plants, as horses and asses, dogs and foxes, pheasants and cocks, barley and oats[…]
1950, Osiris: 1950-1936/50:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| transexions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |