transfigure Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
    glorify; spiritualize.
  2. verb change completely the nature or appearance of
    transmogrify; metamorphose.
    • In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug
    • The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman
    • Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection

WordNet

Trans*fig"ure transitive verb
Etymology
F. transfigurer, L. transfigurare, transfiguratum; trans across, over + figurare to form, shape. See Figure, v. t.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Transfigured ; present participle & verbal noun Transfiguring
Definitions
  1. To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
  2. 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.

Webster 1913