单词 | retransfigure |
释义 | retransfigurev. rare. transitive. To transfigure again or in a new way; to change into (also to) a new form. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > again return1483 retransform1594 retransfigure1632 1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids vi. 169 Cæneus now a woman, once a lad, Yet re-transfigur'd for her follies bad. 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια x. 125 Queen Morphandra by my mediation is pleased to retransfigure you to human shape. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Heptalogia 49 Pass, O poet, retransfigured! 1904 Craftsman Jan. 366/2 Paris..has been so constantly adding to her attractions that it has been fairly re-transfigured since the days of the empire. 2003 German Q. 76 426 The dog is not an animal in a fairy tale waiting to be retransfigured into a human being and thereby saved from a beast's existence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1632 |
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