Now rare. Pa. t. and pple. in Sc. 6 transfigurat. [f. ppl. stem of L. transfigūrāre, f. TRANS- + figūra figure.] trans. = TRANSFIGURE. Hence Transfigurating ppl. a.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls) II. 211. Thei may thro the permission of God transfigurate similitudes.
a. 1555. Ridley, Piteous Lament. (1556), E iv. This our weake body shall be transfigurated and made lyke vnto christes glorious body.
a. 1560. Rolland, Crt. Venus, III. 31. In ane tre scho was transfigurat.
1563. Winȝet, Four Scoir Thre Quest., Wks. (S.T.S.), I. 87. Quhen he transfigurat His body afoir His passioun.
1600. F. Walker, Sp. Mandeville, 145. They can and do so transfigurat themselues.
1819. Byron, Proph. Dante, IV. 33. High heaven is there Transfused, transfigurated.
1871. Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. I. Carlyle, 219. [Carlyle’s] epithet … shoots like a sunbeam on to the matter, throwing a transfigurating light.
