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transfiguration|ˌtrɑːnsfɪgjʊəˈreɪʃən, ˌtræns-|
[ad. L. transfigūrātiōn-em (Pliny), n. of action from transfigūrāre (see prec.). Cf. F. transfiguration (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.). The specific sense 2 was from its ecclesiastical use the earlier in Eng.]
1. The action of transfiguring or state of being transfigured; metamorphosis.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 161 Ihon Cade..departed secretly in habite disguysed..but all his metamorphosis or transfiguracion, litle preuailed. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 76 He hath so often and so diuers transfiguration in colour. 1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 69 b, Ouide in his Transfigurations singeth in this sorte. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 361 Of the transfiguration of men into Lions, we shall say more afterward. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. (title-p.), Nations, fashioning and altering their Bodies from the mould intended by Nature; With Figures of those Transfigurations. 1836Emerson Nature, Idealism Wks. (Bohn) II. 162 This transfiguration which all material objects undergo through the passion of the poet.
2. The change in the appearance of Jesus Christ on the mountain (Matt. xvii. 2; Mark ix. 2, 3).
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Petrus) 37 Criste..hym tuk to be hym by In his transfiguracion. 1497Bp. Alcock Mons Perfect. D iij, This noble transfyguracoun thus shewed to his dyscyples. a1691Boyle Greatn. Mind i. ii. Wks. 1772 V. 557 How glorious it is in heaven, we may guess by what it was at his transfiguration here on earth. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith v. i. §2. 296 In that sublime spectacle called the transfiguration.
b. Eccl. The church festival commemorating this event, observed on the 6th of August.
c1460Brut cclv. 522 This Calixte instituted & ordeyned þe Feste of Transffiguracion of our Lorde to be halowed on Seynt Sixt day in August. 1510–11Rec. St. Mary at Hill 274 Paid for brede, ale and wyne at þe fest of transfiguracion.
c. A picture or representation of this event.
1712Blackmore Creation iii. 123 Did..Raphael's Pencil never chuse to fall? Say, are his Works Transfigurations all? 1753Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1861) III. 209, I have at last put the finishing stroke to the Transfiguration. 1838Emerson Addr., Lit. Ethics Wks. (Bohn) II. 209 Say to the man of letters, that he cannot paint a Transfiguration. |