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verb (used with object), -ured, -ur·ing.
1.
to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
2.
to change so as to glorify or exalt.
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Transfiguring
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
transfigure
c.1300, from O.Fr. transfigurer (12c.), from L. transfigurare "change the shape of," from trans- "across" + figurare "to form, fashion," from figura "form, shape" (see figure). Transfiguration (late 14c.) originally was "the change in appearance of Christ before his disciples"
EXPAND(Matt. xvii:2; Mark ix:2,3). The non-Christian sense is first recorded 1540s.
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