transfigurare

transfigurare [CL] 1 to change the form or appearence of, transform (also absol.); b (w. ref. to disguise). c (alch.) to transmute. haec Circes Scyllam ~avit in formam hominis et canis et delphinis simul Lib. Monstr. I 12; corpus ‥ funebri deformitate ~atum, nam digiti dentalium trahe formam pretendebant W. Cant. Mir. Thom. II 71; exstitit leprosissima, adeo ut ‥ eam ‥ labiorum ‥ tumor ac palpebrarum et oculorum transversio ‥ ~assent Ib. IV 23; ut ignis iste potentissimus ~aret et transmutet in se ‥ expectamus J. Ford Serm. 7. 7; non se novit in tot figurarum diversitates ~are Proteus Neckam NR II 177; ante conspectum ejus in varias formas se ~avit angelus malus J. Furness Walth. 65; questio est utrum Satan, quando ~at se in angelum lucis [cf. II Cor. xi 14], fallat sensus hominum Quaest. Ox. 107.  b Herwardus ‥ occulte iter agit ‥ per unguenta seipso ~ato, mutataque flavente cesarie in nigredinem G. Herw. f. 323; justiciarius de banco regis ‥ in apparatu simplicimo facie ~ata ‥ jam venerat ad Londonias Chr. Kirkstall 127; ovina pellis ~ato lupo totius gregis ruina est J. Bury Glad. Sal. 604.  c utilitas quod, habita noticia hujus libri ‥ ~ari possit Mars in lunam et Venus in solem M. Scot Lumen 240. 2 (w. ref. to Christ) to transfigure (Matth. xvii 2, Marc. xi 2–3). Matheus Dominum Marcusque post sex dies ~atum dicunt Bede Luke 454A; 805 in vijas k[alend]as agustus [sic] die Sabbati quo ~atus est Christus CS 322; in monte coram Petro et Jacob et Joanne ~atur Elmer Cant. Record. 717B; quum in monte se ~aret Bekinsau 754. 3 (w. in & refl. acc.) to adopt or take on oneself so as to embody, represent, or sim. (cf. transformare 2b). debiles ‥ tristes et pusillanimes tranformans et ~ans in te: tristis est, inquis, anima mea usque ad mortem [Matth. xxvi 38] (Ailr. Serm.) CC cont. med. IIB 275; subjeci hoc paradigma et in me ~avi exempli causa (Lit.) M. Rievaulx 56; gens ista [Anglica], de status sui gradu vix unquam contenta, quod alteri congruit libenter in se ~at Higd. I 60 p. 170 (cf. Bower IV 39: in se representat).