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Definition of Transfigure
1. Verb. Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration.
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Transfiguration, Transfiguration, Transfiguration
2. Verb. Change completely the nature or appearance of. "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection"
Generic synonyms: Change By Reversal, Reverse, Turn
Derivative terms: Transfiguration, Transmogrification
Definition of Transfigure
1. v. t. To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
Definition of Transfigure
1. Verb. To transform the outward appearance of something; to convert into a different form, state or substance. ¹
2. Verb. To glorify or exalt something or someone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transfigure
1. [v -URED, -URING, -URES]
Medical Definition of Transfigure
1. 1. To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform. 2. Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to. "[Jesus] was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." (Matt. Xvii. 2) Origin: F. Transfigurer, L. Transfigurare, transfiguratum; trans across, over + figurare to form, shape. See Figure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transfigure
Literary usage of Transfigure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1826)
"transfigure is to make to pass over into another figure; TRANSFORM and METAMORPHOSE
is to put into another form; the former being said only of spiritual ..."
2. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... which English genius was to transfigure and refine into shapes of beauty and
usefulness, to enrich and swell her commerce with the world. ..."
3. The Doctrine of the Real Presence: As Contained in the Fathers from the by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1883)
"On the meaning of the word " transfigure," which S. Ambrose employs, Tertullian,
... transfigure ..."
4. The Graduate College of Princeton: With Some Reflections on the Humanizing by Andrew Fleming West (1913)
"Could a school of higher studies have a higher impulse? May it energize and
transfigure the new-born Graduate College! ..."
5. Faith the Greatest Power in the World by Samuel McComb (1915)
"... XI FAITH'S POWER TO transfigure THE PAST Perhaps the greatest obstacle to
effort—a very mountain that weighs upon the soul, is the consciousness of ..."
6. Manna: A Book of Daily Worship Containing Brief Scripture Lessons and by John Wesley Hanson (1892)
"And Thou, our house-mate, shall these watts transfigure into royal halls. Ah,
would thy heart but be A manger for the birth, Christ would once more become A ..."
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