KJV Dictionary Definition: transfiguration

transfiguration

TRANSFIGURA'TION, n.

1. A change of form; particularly, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.

See Matt. 17.

2. A feast held by the Romish church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.

transfigure

TRANSFIG'URE, v.t. L. trans and figura. To transform; to change the outward form or appearance.

--And was transfigured before them. Matt. 17.

transfigured

TRANSFIG'URED, pp. Changed in form.

transfiguring

TRANSFIG'URING, ppr. Transforming; changing the external form.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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