0 to change the appearance of a person or thing very much, usually in a very positive and often spiritual way:
As she gazed down at the baby, her face was transfigured with tenderness.
The assassination somehow transfigured Kennedy into a modern American saint.
Or a benign development easing poverty, transfiguring the role of states and enlarging the horizons of citizens?
Neither the intelligible shadow of faith transfigures the materiality of the existential, nor do existential pain and emptiness subvert the authenticity of faith.
At this moment the moon emerges and transfigures the landscape.
Their cogent analysis is exceptionally powerful and likely to transfigure the current view of mammalian brain evolution.
Farr (1858) described this as the first attempt to measure how 'the play of passion transfigures the human frame' and 'influences its existence'.
Proponents of ' the eye ' were reluctant to outline the precise methods by which furious maniacs were transfigured, and unsurprisingly, the sources of the charismatic stewards' efficacy were contested.
We should transfigure and transform the face of the whole country.
Their faces were transfigured by this highly charged emotional experience.
