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▪ I. † transˈfigurate, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. transfigūrāt-us, pa. pple. of transfigūrāre: see next.]
Transfigured; having its figure or form altered: spec. in Geom. (see transfigured).
1571Digges Pantom. iv. Hh ij b, This transfigurate body [Dodecaedron] receiueth an internall Tetraedron, whose solide angles rest in the centers of his trigonall bases. Ibid., Icosaedron within this transfigurate body may be described.
▪ II. transfigurate, v. Now rare.|trɑːnsˈfɪgjʊəreɪt, træns-|
Pa. tense and pple. in Sc. 6 transfigurat.
[f. ppl. stem of L. transfigūrāre, f. trans- + figūra figure.]
trans. = transfigure. Hence transˈfigurating ppl. a.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 211 Thei may thro the permission of God transfigurate similitudes. a1555Ridley Piteous Lament. (1556) E iv, This our weake body shall be transfigurated and made lyke vnto christes glorious body. a1560Rolland Crt. Venus iii. 31 In ane tre scho was transfigurat. 1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 87 Quhen he transfigurat His body afoir His passioun. 1600F. Walker Sp. Mandeville 145 They can and do so transfigurat themselues. 1819Byron Proph. Dante iv. 33 High heaven is there Transfused, transfigurated. 1871Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. Carlyle 219 [Carlyle's] epithet..shoots like a sunbeam on to the matter, throwing a transfigurating light. |