Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To change the form or appearance of; transform. synonym: convert.
- transitive verb To exalt or glorify.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To transform; change the outward form or appearance of: specifically used of the transfiguration of Christ.
- To give an elevated or glorified appearance or character to; elevate and glorify; idealize: often with direct or indirect allusion to the transfiguration of Christ.
- Synonyms Transmute, etc. See
transform .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
- transitive verb Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
transform the outwardappearance of something; toconvert into a differentform ,state orsubstance . - verb To
glorify orexalt something or someone.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
- verb change completely the nature or appearance of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word transfigure means, to change the appearance or form.
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Parris describes this as music's power to "transfigure": "I am already forgetting what Gordon Brown said to his conference in Bournemouth this week.
Archive 2007-09-01 Burke's Corner 2007
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Parris describes this as music's power to "transfigure": "I am already forgetting what Gordon Brown said to his conference in Bournemouth this week.
The enchantment of the transcendent Burke's Corner 2007
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Ben also confessed to her that he tried for years to "pray the gay away," but he's done trying to transfigure himself now.
Samara O'Shea: Pray The Gay Away? Samara O'Shea 2011
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The answer may still be no, but either way the duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell have come to own their quirks and transfigure them into a lasting kind of cool.
Wing It Out Loud Around Town Andy Battaglia 2011
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Ben also confessed to her that he tried for years to "pray the gay away," but he's done trying to transfigure himself now.
Samara O'Shea: Pray The Gay Away? Samara O'Shea 2011
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Ai spent those same years scavenging Beijing's back alleys and antique shops for Silk Road materials he could transfigure into art, like Marcel Duchamp once did with a urinal or Andy Warhol did with a soup can.
The Art of Resistance Kelly Crow 2011
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Above all, that meant the end of the idea of the artist as shaman, a person able to transform and transfigure, who could conjure one thing, a work of art, out of another, its raw materials and constituent parts.
A Magical Metamorphosis of the Ordinary Eric Gibson 2011
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Or, more, a crusade — to invent a new culture for quasi-public schools and transfigure inner-city education in New York.
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However, within the spiritual experience, we can know something for a MOMENT and that MOMENT is all it takes to transfigure our life forever, to alter our relationship to everything, and change us in the deepest sanctum of our being.
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