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transfigure, v.|trɑːnsˈfɪgjʊə(r), træns-, -ˈfɪgə(r)|
[ad. L. transfigūrāre to change the shape of (f. trans- + figūra form, shape, figure); or a. F. transfigurer (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. trans. To alter the figure or appearance of; to change in outward appearance; to transform.
a1300Cursor M. 18497 (Cott.) Þai war transfigurd als tite, Was neuer i-wis snau sa quite. a1340Hampole Psalter xc. 6 When þe fende transfigurs him in aungel of light. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 247 Venus, if it be thy wil Yow in this gardyn thus to transfigure. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. 913 So craftily þei koude hem transfigure, Conformyng hem to þe chaunt[e]plure. c1470Henry Wallace vi. 91 Thow transfigowryt Wallace out off his weill. 1547Bk. Marchauntes e viij b, Satan..by cautyle transfigurynge hym into an angell of lyght. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xii. (Arb.) 174 Your single wordes may be many waies tranfigured to make the meetre or verse more tunable and melodious. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 193 Wilde-goats are transfigured into many similitudes. 1855Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note Q. 230 The Sacraments, which, by the mystery of the sacred prayer, are transfigured into Body and Blood. 1880McCarthy Own Times III. xxxii. 49 The mutiny was transfigured into a revolutionary war.
b. In reference to the Transfiguration of Christ.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 57 Þis gospel telliþ how þat Crist was transfigurid in siȝt of þree apostlis. c1400Mandeville (1839) x. 114 In þat hille Thabor, oure lord transfigured him before seynt Peter, seynt Iohn & seynt Iame. 1526Tindale Mark ix. 2 And he was transfigured before them. 1911J. A. Robinson in Encycl. Brit. XV. 381/2 They saw Jesus transfigured in a radiance of glory.
c. intr. for refl. rare.
1840Browning Sordello ii. 214 He no genius rare Transfiguring in fire, or wave, or air, At will.
2. trans. fig. (in allusion to the Transfiguration of Christ): To elevate, glorify, idealize, spiritualize.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 58 Þus men sein þat transfiguring is turnyng into glorious forme. 1687Boyle Martyrd. Theodora viii. (1703) 116, I think our notions will then be raised..and our love and other affections, will be transfigured, as well as our bodies. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iv. ii. 185 His education becomes devotion, and his morality is transfigured into Religion. 1876E. Mellor Priesth. i. 15 Temple, priest, and sacrifice were employed and transfigured into glorious spiritual significations. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 113 [Stephen's] whole being was transfigured by a consciousness which illuminated his very countenance.
†3. To transfer by a figure. (A literalism of translation.) Obs.
1382Wyclif 1 Cor. iv. 6 This thing I haue transfigurid [Vulg. transfiguravi] in to me and in to Apollo; that in vs ȝe lerne.
Hence transˈfigured ppl. a. († in Geom. (quots. 1571) applied to a solid in which plane faces are substituted for the original solid angles); transˈfiguring vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1380[see 2]. 1571Digges Pantom. iv. Gg i b, This solides inscribed Octaedrons side is triple to the medietie of his contayning transfigured Tetraedrons side. Ibid. Gg iij b, A Transfigured Octaedron is a Geometricall Figure incompassed with 14 bases, whereof 8 are equall equiangle Hexagonall playnes, and the other 6 are equall squares. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 805 Bodies..luciform or lucid, like to our Saviour's then transfigured body. 1717Garth tr. Ovid, Enchantm. Circe 33 The dow'r desir'd is his transfigur'd friends. 1846Trench Mirac. Introd. (1862) 93 Their transforming, transfiguring power. 1880N. Smyth Old Faiths in New Light iii. (1882) 98 It can shine, a steady and transfiguring light of life, for the world. |