We learn that thanks to Judge Bruce M. Selya, who sits on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.
Selya is known [2] for his interesting use of English [3] in the decisions he writes for the court. And in a ruling issued yesterday [2] involving a company suing its former accountant, he writes:
Specifically, they point out that by reclassifying the transfers to Rosalie Berger as salary payments, the net profit previously reflected on RTR's books was transmogrified into a net loss of nearly $1,500,000.
Interesting - a judge who quotes Calvin and Hobbes [4]. Not something you see every day. Only on further research, it turns out the word's first known use was in 1656 [5]. Who knew?