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单词 transfigure
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transfigurev.

/trɑːnsˈfɪɡjʊə//transˈfɪɡjʊə//trɑːnsˈfɪɡə//transˈfɪɡə/
Etymology: < Latin transfigūrāre to change the shape of ( < trans- prefix + figūra form, shape, figure); or < French transfigurer (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
1.
a. transitive. To alter the figure or appearance of; to change in outward appearance; to transform.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)] > give another shape to
forshapeOE
transfigurea1340
transformc1340
transfigurate?a1475
turkess1530
turkish1560
turken1575
metamorphose1576
metamorphize1587
reform1634
deform1702
reshape1794
transmould1855
metamorphosize1888
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > in form or appearance
makec1175
transfigurea1340
transformc1340
overcasta1387
translatea1393
shapec1400
resolvea1450
transfigurate?a1475
fashion1528
converta1530
to bless into1534
redact1554
trans-shape1575
deduce1587
star1606
deducta1627
Pythagorize1631
to run into ——a1640
transpeciate1643
transmogrify1656
throw1824
transfeature1875
squirm1876
recontour1913
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xc. 6 When þe fende transfigurs him in aungel of light.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18497 Þai war transfigurd als tite, Was neuer i-wis snau sa quite.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 247 Venus if it be thy wil Yow in this gardyn thus to transfigure.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 913 So craftily þei koude hem transfigure, Conformyng hem to þe chaunt[e]plure.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 91 Thow transfigowryt Wallace out off his weill.
1547 tr. A. de Marcourt Bk. Marchauntes (new ed.) e viij b Satan..by cautyle transfigurynge hym into an angell of lyght.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xii. 135 Your single words may be many waies tranfigured to make the meetre or verse more tunable and melodious.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 244 Wilde-goats are transfigured into many similitudes.
1855 E. B. Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note Q. 230 The Sacraments, which, by the mystery of the sacred prayer, are transfigured into Body and Blood.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxxii. 49 The mutiny was transfigured into a revolutionary war.
b. In reference to the Transfiguration of Christ.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [verb (transitive)] > transfigure or glorify
clarifya1340
transfigurec1380
transmake1909
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 57 Þis gospel telliþ how þat Crist was transfigurid in siȝt of þree apostlis.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) x. 114 In þat hille Thabor, oure lord transfigured him before seynt Peter, seynt Iohn & seynt Iame.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark ix. f. lvjv And he was transfigured before them.
1911 J. A. Robinson in Encycl. Brit. XV. 381/2 They saw Jesus transfigured in a radiance of glory.
c. intransitive for reflexive. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > have (specific) shape [verb (intransitive)] > assume definite shape > new or different
schematize1650
re-form1827
transfigure1840
metamorphosize1967
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > be transformed [verb (intransitive)] > in shape
turna1425
shift1607
taurize1727
transfigure1840
metamorphose1927
1840 R. Browning Sordello ii. 214 He no genius rare Transfiguring in fire, or wave, or air, At will.
2. transitive. figurative (in allusion to the Transfiguration of Christ): To elevate, glorify, idealize, spiritualize.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > exaltation or glorification > exalt or glorify [verb (transitive)] > impart nobility to
noblec1380
transfigurec1380
nobley?a1439
noblish1483
ennoble1502
gentle1532
nobilitate1542
ennoblize1598
ennoblishc1600
sublimate1601
greaten1627
exalt1711
annoblize1731
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 58 Þus men sein þat transfiguring is turnyng into glorious forme.
1687 R. Boyle Martyrdom Theodora (1703) viii. 116 I think our notions will then be raised..and our love and other affections, will be transfigured, as well as our bodies.
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. ii. 185 His education becomes devotion, and his morality is transfigured into Religion.
1876 E. Mellor Priesthood i. 15 Temple, priest, and sacrifice were employed and transfigured into glorious spiritual significations.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. ii. viii. 155 [Stephen's] whole being was transfigured by a consciousness which illuminated his very countenance.
3. To transfer by a figure. (A literalism of translation.) Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)]
remuea1325
movea1382
translatea1382
transfer1382
transfigurec1384
removea1387
to turn overa1425
transume1483
to carry about1496
traduce1546
transplant1555
transact1621
transmigrate1635
hand1642
to make over1713
recover1719
to carry over1850
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. iv. 6 This thing I haue transfigurid [L. transfiguravi] in to me and in to Apollo; that in vs ȝe lerne.

Derivatives

transˈfigured adj. Obsolete in Geometry (quots. 15711, 15712) applied to a solid in which plane faces are substituted for the original solid angles.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > surface > [adjective] > relating to plane surfaces > substitution of angles for plane faces
transfigurate1571
transfigured1571
transformate1571
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adjective] > transformed
transformed1413
transmutate?a1475
leavened1587
trans-shaped1602
Pythagoreana1667
transfigured1678
metamorphosed1730
transmuted1749
transmogrifiedc1832
transnatural1907
metamorphosized1948
born-again1977
the world > space > shape > [adjective] > shaped > again or anew > into different form
transformed1413
metamorphized1595
metamorphosed1596
transfigured1678
metamorphic1816
1571 T. Digges in L. Digges's Geom. Pract.: Pantometria xxv. sig. Gg i v This solides inscribed Octaedrons side is triple to the medietie of his contayning transfigured Tetraedrons side.
1571 T. Digges in L. Digges's Geom. Pract.: Pantometria xxv. sig. Gg iij v A Transfigured Octaedron is a Geometricall Figure incompassed with 14 bases, whereof 8 are equall equiangle Hexagonall playnes, and the other 6 are equall squares.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 805 Bodies..Luciform or Lucid, like to our Saviour's then Transfigured Body.
1717 S. Garth in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiv. 489 The Dow'r desir'd is his transfigur'd Friends.
transˈfiguring n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > [adjective] > shaping or able to shape > into different form
metamorphosing1607
transformative1673
re-formative1838
transfiguring1846
transfigurating1871
reshaping1872
transfigurative1899
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adjective] > transforming
transmuting1579
metamorphosing1607
transmutative1611
leavening1628
transmutatorya1631
transforminga1653
conversive1656
convertive1816
metamorphotic1826
transmutive1836
transfiguring1846
transmogrifying1851
permutating1852
transfigurating1871
transfigurative1899
c1380 [see sense 2].
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Introd. vi. 87 Their transforming, transfiguring power.
1880 N. Smyth Old Faiths in New Light (1882) iii. 98 It can shine, a steady and transfiguring light of life, for the world.
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