transfiguratio

transfĭgūrātĭo, ōnis, f. [trans-figuro],

• a change of shape, transformation, transfiguration (post-Aug.), Plin. 7, 55, 56, § 188: transfiguratio interemptio est pristini, Tert. adv. Prax. 27.

trānsfigūrātio, ōnis, f. (transfiguro), die Umgestaltung, Umformung, Umbildung, Plin. 7, 188. Tert. adv. Prax. 27. Chalcid. Tim. 37: Plur., Chalcid. Tim. 134. – als gramm. u. metr. t.t., Adamant. b. Cassiod. de orthogr. 6. Diom. 343, 30. Mar. Victorin. 3, 1. § 6 u. 10. p. 101, 9 u. 20 K.

transfiguratio [CL] 1 (act or fact of) change in form or appearance, transformation (also w. ref. to disguise). David ‥ furentis actus imitabatur ‥ sed ‥ rex dispensatoriae ~onis ejus inscius ‥ suae domus ingressu privat ut insanum Bede Sam. 657C; c1160 Sathanas transfigurat se in angelum lucis. hoc erat ~o Olofernis, qua virtutis feminam a proposito et habitu sancte viduitatis dimovere decreverat Osb. Clar. Ep. 42 p. 162; s1399 monacalia indutus ‥ sub talibus vestium transfuguracionibus plura dampnosa ‥ perpetraverat Ad. Usk 27. 2 Transfiguration (of Christ, Matth. xvii 2, Marc. xi 2–3). b (also w. festum) feast of the Transfiguration. exposita lectione dominicae ~onis ad nostram ‥ conscientiam revertamur Bede Hom. I 24. 101C; discipulis suis praecipientis ne cui ~onis gloriam ante diem resurrectionis suae dicerent Alcuin WillP 18; Dominus idem testimonium accepit a Patre in ~one quod et in baptismo Lanfr. Cel. Conf. 627A; utrum in ~one priorem speciem exuerit Bald. Cant. Sacr. Alt. 678B; ~o Domini facta creditur octavo idus Augusti M. Par. Maj. I 95; constructa est capella ‥ in honore Sancti Salvatoris et ~onis Amund. I app. 445.  b in benedictione palmarum ‥ in purificacione ‥ sive carnium in die Pasche, vel fructuum in ~one Obs. Barnwell 90; 1514 festum ~onis Domini, duplex Comp. Swith. 358.

trānsfĭgūrātĭō, ōnis, f. (transfigura), métamorphose, transformation : Plin. 7, 188.