Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
transfigure [trans-fig-yer or, esp. British, -fig-er] SynonymsExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for transfigure on Thesaurus.com verb (used with object), trans·fig·ured, trans·fig·ur·ing.
- to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- to change so as to glorify or exalt.
Origin of transfigure 1250–1300; Middle English transfiguren Latin trānsfigūrāre to change in shape. See trans-, figure Related formstrans·fig·ure·ment, nounun·trans·fig·ured, adjectiveSynonyms for transfigure See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.com 1. transmute, renew. Related Words for transfigure transmute, interchange, modify, make, transpose, transform, metamorphose, remodel, turn, switch, commute, reorganize, transmogrify, transubstantiate, download, apply, appropriate, translate, alter, revise Examples from the Web for transfigure Contemporary Examples of transfigure
So neither polling nor political theory can transfigure the human heart or orient our minds toward the brotherhood of man?
Dear Frank Luntz: Here’s How to Be Happy Again
James Poulos
January 8, 2014
Historical Examples of transfigure
He looked taller, his face shone with a serenity that seemed to transfigure him.
Emile Zola
Then amazed recognition, love, happiness, transfigure her face.
Edward Bellamy
It is here to transfigure all; we must accept with it the merer things it glorifies.
Ethel Colburn Mayne
She believes in her power to renew and transfigure them, to achieve in them a moral miracle.
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You must have the imagination of a poet to transfigure them.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Oliver Wendell Holmes
British Dictionary definitions for transfigure transfigure verb (usually tr)
- to change or cause to change in appearance
- to become or cause to become more exalted
Derived Formstransfigurement, nounWord Origin for transfigure C13: from Latin transfigūrāre, from trans- + figūra appearance Word Origin and History for transfigure v.
c.1300, from Old French transfigurer (12c.), from Latin transfigurare “change the shape of,” from trans- “across” (see trans-) + figurare “to form, fashion,” from figura “to form, shape,” from figura “a shape, form, figure” (see figure (n.)). Related: Transfigured; transfiguring.