anamorphose, v. rare.
(ænəˈmɔːfəʊs, -əs)
[f. next (or its Gr. elements) on model of metamorphose.]
To represent by anamorphosis; to distort into a monstrous projection.
| 1876 J. A. H. Murray in Mill Hill Mag. IV. 79 Shakspere might have seen this very picture, or, if not, some other in which a skull was thus anamorphosed; in which ‘looking awry,’ a ‘shape of grief’ was found. [Cf. Rich. II, ii. ii. 22.] |