transformare

transformare [CL] 1 to change the form, shape, appearance, or nature of, transform (also transf. or fig.). b (w. ref. to Christ) to transfigure (Matth. xvii 2, Marc. xi 2–3). gloriam domini ‥ speculantes in eandem imaginem ~amur [cf. II Cor. iii 18] Bede Hom. II 16. 187C; ex eo tempore quo aurum in caput vituli ~averunt Id. Acts 959A; Scilla ‥ in portentum maritimum ~ata est W. Donc. Aph. Phil. 7. 9; quos ‥ turpitudo ~avit in bestias Ailr. Spec. Car. III 40. 620; qui grana frumenti et expressionem botri ~at in corpus suum et sanguinem Found. Waltham 11; alchemia est sciencia docens ~are omne genus metalli in alterum Spec. Alch. 378; ligna ‥ in ‥ effigiem per quamvis dolaturam ‥ fuerint ~ata Gerv. Tilb. III 4; vestium ~atarum varietatem M. Par. Maj. V 269; metropolis Grecum est ‥ dicendum quod non est forma Greca, sed a gentili nomine in ‘tes’, sicut in Latinum ~atur Bacon CSPhil. 463; c1301 sicud camaleon ‥ potest ~are se in diversos colores Quaest. Ox. 357; ~at anachoritam in matronam AncrR 81; mos ‥ est barbarice locutionis ‥ verba ac nomina ‥ ~are ‥ apocopando Elmh. Cant. 338; c1430 ille satelles Sathane, qui se in angelum lucis ~averat [cf. II Cor. xi 14] Reg. Whet. II 381; dux Exonie ‥ se ~ans in simplicem ‥ captus ‥ decollatur Eul. Hist. Cont. 386. b in monte dominus orat, ~atur, discipulis archana suae majestatis aperit Bede Luke 456D. 2 to change the application of, transfer, adapt, apply (to). b (w. in & refl. acc.) to adopt or take on oneself so as to embody, represent, or sim. (cf. transfigurare 3). 1082 quidam monachus ‥ ferrum judicii ‥ per ignorantiam ‥ in alios usus ~avit Regesta app. p. 122; ubicumque sermo vel convertitur vel transsumitur vel ~atur a propria significatione ad inpropriam methaphora dicitur T. Chobham Praed. prol.. b cum nostre infirmitatis in se ~aret esuriem (Ailr. Serm.) CC cont. med. IIB 156; debiles ‥ tristes et pusillanimes ~ans et transfigurans in te: tristis est, inquis, anima mea usque ad mortem [Matth. xxvi 38] (Ailr. Serm.) Ib. IIB 275; 1318 princeps ‥ antistitum Anglie ‥ nostre parvitati excellencie sue magnitudinem contemperavit et angustias quas patimur in se compassionis spiritu ~avit FormOx 43. 3 to counterfeit, forge. numisma ‥ et commercii formam quisque apud se ~avit, inminuit, et adulteravit Lib. Eli. III 73; argumenta ‥ fallacie composuit ~avitque sigillum ‥ pluresque vacuas cedulas inde inpressit Ib. III 96.

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