Full record for shapechange v.

Definition	to change shape, by an imagined natural capability, and adopt the form and sometimes abilities of an animal or other being
OED requirements	antedating 1988
Earliest cite	T. Brooks 'The Wishsong of Shannara'
Comment	Katrina Campbell submitted a cite from a 1992 reprint of Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye's "The Death of Sleep". We would like to check the 1990 first edition. Imran Ghory submitted a cite from a 1993 reprint of Terry Brooks' "The Wishsong of Shannara", which Jeff Wolfe confirmed in an earlier reprint from 1988. We would like to check the 1985 first edition. Douglas Winston submitted a cite from an undated reprint of Laurell Hamilton's 1998 "Burnt Offerings".Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1998 reprint of Mercedes Lackey's "The Talisman"; we would be interested in verifying the first publication of this story in "Sword And Sorceress VII", ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (1990). Douglas Winston submitted a 1992 cite from Tanya Huff's "Blood Trail". Douglas Winston submitted cites from Ken Goddard's 1999 "First Evidence". Mark English submitted a 1989 cite from Caitlin Matthews' 'Arthur and the Sovereignty of Britain'
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for shapechange v.

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1990 A. McCaffrey & J. L. Nye Death of Sleep (1992) 221	Lunzie lay back, trying to involve herself in the ratiocinations of Toli Alopa, a Weft detective who could shapechange to follow a suspect without fear of being spotted.
1994 Interzone Feb. 63/1	Accompanying them is a Loki-like fox who occasionally shapechanges into a compact, joyous, elderly scamp of a man, a strikingly original conception, beautifully realized by Beagle.
1994 Interzone Oct. 62/2	World War One had its points, for the fantasist. There were ghost spies; deserters who shapechangeed into ghouls who lurked in underground redoubts in hellish nomanslands between the lines and who ate soldiers; flying submarines and land ironclads [etc.]