Transfigure
verb
To change the form or appearance of something or someone, especially in a way that makes them more beautiful.
The sunset transfigured the whole landscape into a glorious spectacle.
Often appears as...
- transfigure into
- transfigure the landscape
verb
In a religious context, to transform so as to exalt or glorify.
In the New Testament, Jesus was transfigured before the disciples.
Often appears as...
- transfigured before
- transfigured in glory
Usage tips
Religious
verb
To change the form or appearance of something or someone, especially in a way that makes them more beautiful.
The sunset transfigured the whole landscape into a glorious spectacle.
Often appears as...
- transfigure into
- transfigure the landscape
verb
In a religious context, to transform so as to exalt or glorify.
In the New Testament, Jesus was transfigured before the disciples.
Often appears as...
- transfigured before
- transfigured in glory
Usage tips
Religious
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Beauty Transformation
Used when something ordinary becomes extraordinarily beautiful or impressive.
The artist's touch transfigured the simple room into an elegant gallery.
Pro Tip 2/3Dramatic Change
Implies a significant or complete change in appearance or form.
The renovation transfigured the old building, making it unrecognizable.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Physical
May also refer to the transformation of ideas or impressions.
His speech transfigured our understanding of the historical event.
Pro Tip 1/3Beauty Transformation
Used when something ordinary becomes extraordinarily beautiful or impressive.
The artist's touch transfigured the simple room into an elegant gallery.
Pro Tip 2/3Dramatic Change
Implies a significant or complete change in appearance or form.
The renovation transfigured the old building, making it unrecognizable.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Physical
May also refer to the transformation of ideas or impressions.
His speech transfigured our understanding of the historical event.
Pro Tip 1/3Beauty Transformation
Used when something ordinary becomes extraordinarily beautiful or impressive.
The artist's touch transfigured the simple room into an elegant gallery.
Pro Tip 2/3Dramatic Change
Implies a significant or complete change in appearance or form.
The renovation transfigured the old building, making it unrecognizable.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Physical
May also refer to the transformation of ideas or impressions.
His speech transfigured our understanding of the historical event.
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How the Monkey King...
This was far from the first time he’d defied destiny in his quest for wisdom and power. His past rebellions had earned him the power to transfigure his body, ride clouds at dizzying speeds, and govern his tribe with magic and martial arts. In this crisis, he saw yet another opportunity. With a flash of his nimble fingers,
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How do you explain...
that puts the fire into the equations. On that view, consciousness doesn't dangle outside the physical world as some kind of extra. It's there right at its heart. This view, I think, the panpsychist view, has the potential to transfigure our relationship
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How the Monkey King...
This was far from the first time he’d defied destiny in his quest for wisdom and power. His past rebellions had earned him the power to transfigure his body, ride clouds at dizzying speeds, and govern his tribe with magic and martial arts. In this crisis, he saw yet another opportunity. With a flash of his nimble fingers,
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How do you explain...
that puts the fire into the equations. On that view, consciousness doesn't dangle outside the physical world as some kind of extra. It's there right at its heart. This view, I think, the panpsychist view, has the potential to transfigure our relationship
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Quote examples
Mark Fisher
British Writer
When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.
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Edward McKendree Bounds
American Author
The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body.
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Joy Williams
American Writer
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.
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John Henry Newman
British Clergyman
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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John Drinkwater
English Poet
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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Mark Fisher
British Writer
When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.
Quote examples
Edward McKendree Bounds
American Author
The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body.
Quote examples
Joy Williams
American Writer
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.
Quote examples
John Henry Newman
British Clergyman
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
Quote examples
John Drinkwater
English Poet
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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