transfigure• Like Blake, he paints the world transfigured.• For one instant I saw you, erect on tiptoe, ruling your orchestra and transfigured by the expression of a conqueror.• It was that bitterrivalry that led us to lift our gaze to space-but what we have seen has transfigured us.• His was a face, stern, even a little melancholy in repose, which was transfigured when he smiled.
Origintransfigure
(1300-1400)Latintransfigurare, from figurare“to shape”