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Meanings of transfigure in English

Catalan
transformar
Spanish
transformar

To change completely the nature or appearance of.

transformar
Spanish
transfigurar

Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration.

transfigurar
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Examples for "metamorphose"
Examples for "metamorphose"
1
Can you only metamorphose the difficult cases? Professor Lyall was impressed despite himself.
Blameless
2
Their minds consume the power, using it to metamorphose once again.
The Reality Dysfunction
3
They live up to three years as larvae before they metamorphose.
Radio NZ
4
A quarter of an hour sufficed to metamorphose Bathurst into an Oude peasant.
Rujub, the Juggler
5
New articles are added one at a time, so issues metamorphose little by little.
Wired
1
Whoeber said Washington White wanted ter transmogrify hissef to a new planet?
On a Torn-Away World; Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake
2
Better stay at home and learn to transmogrify a few kink's picters into your pocket.
Anna St. Ives
3
Lurid shapes transmogrify and melt against a scab-thick dark.
Voice of the Fire
4
Amazing to watch a 14-year-old transmogrify so completely into the despairing old man of magic.
The Guardian
5
S. S. Schmucker's ambition was to transmogrify the Lutheran Church into an essentially unionistic Reformed body.
American Lutheranism, Volume 1 / Early History of American Luthe...
Usage of transfigure in English
1
That We may transfigure you and make you what ye know not.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
2
But Mrs. Ascher's feelings were strong enough to transfigure even her clothes.
Gossamer
3
While rejecting nothing in the church they tried to transfigure everything.
The Age of the Reformation
4
The features seem hardly material, such a fineness and spiritual light transfigure them.
Memories of Hawthorne
5
They trust in emotions which such gear is designed to hide or transfigure.
The Forest Lovers
6
You must have the imagination of a poet to transfigure them.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
7
And this one conception will transform and transfigure all our thoughts of redemption.
Love's Final Victory / Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis...
8
Her eyes are her chief beauty, and would transfigure any face into loveliness.
Not Pretty, but Precious; And Other Short Stories
9
May not the increase of knowledge transfigure the world?-JOWETT ,Plato ,i.
Lectures on Modern history
10
Some old customs can momentarily transfigure our existence and let the eternal shine through.
Independent.ie
11
The uprolled clouds and the colors of morning and evening will transfigure maples and alders.
Essays — Second Series
12
One of the golden twilights which transfigure the world
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
13
But one look from Nana's eyes would transfigure him in a sort of sensual ecstasy.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
14
How, in a lover's eyes, the woman can transfigure a city, a landscape, a country!
That Fortune
15
It has power to change this earth to a paradise, and transfigure its inhabitants to angels.
Summerfield / or, Life on a Farm
16
Then amazed recognition, love, happiness, transfigure her face.
Lost / 1898
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