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Webster 1913 Edition

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Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Transfigured

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Transfiguring

[F.

transfigurer

, L.

transfigurare

transfiguratum

;

trans

across, over +

figurare

to form, shape. See

Verb.

]

To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.

Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to.

[Jesus] was

transfigured

before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

Matt. xvii. 2.

Verb.

[L. trans and figura.] To transform; to change the outward form or appearance.

--And was transfigured before them. Matt. 17.