Transfiguration

Definition: Transfiguration

Transfiguration

Noun

1. The act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify.

Date "transfiguration" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Specialty Definition: Transfiguration

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream of the transfiguration, foretells that your faith in man's own nearness to God will raise you above trifling opinions, and elevate you to a worthy position, in which capacity you will be able to promote the well being of the ignorant and persecuted. To see yourself transfigured, you will stand high in the esteem of honest and prominent men. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Specialty Definition: Transfiguration

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Transfiguration is a changing of appearance.

The Transfiguration is an event in the Gospel account of Jesus Christ, in which he appeared to Peter, John, and James in a transfigured state, with unearthly, brilliant white clothes, and in the presence of Elijah and Moses.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Transfiguration."

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Synonyms within Context: Transfiguration

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Change	Transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative.
Rite	Seven sacraments, impanation, subpanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance; (atonement); telling of beads, processional; thurification, incense, holy water, aspersion.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Transfiguration

Specialty definitions using "transfiguration": Editor ♦ Jerome. (references)

Etymologies containing "transfiguration": Transfiguratien. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Transfiguration" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (transfiguration), German (transfiguration).

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Modern Usage: Transfiguration

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Death and Transfiguration (1983)
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Commercial Usage: Transfiguration

Domain	Title
Books	Gay Mysticism: Ecstasy and Transfiguration Through Divine Love (reference) Matthew's Transfiguration Story & Jewish-Christian Controversy (Jsnt Supplement Series No 122) (reference) Prelude and Transfiguration from Tristan and Isolde (reference) The Drama of Love & Death: A Study of Human Evolution & Transfiguration (reference) The Transfiguration of Man (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Strauss: Till Eulenspiel/Don Juan/Death & Transfiguration (SACD) [SACD] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Transfiguration

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Photo Album: Transfiguration

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Pogost ensemble, Church of the Intercession (1764), (right); with bell tower (19th century); and Church of the Transfiguration (1714), south view, Kizhi Island, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.		St. Cyril (Kirill)-Belozersk Monastery, Church of the Transfiguration over the Water Gate (1595), interior, view east with icon screen, Kirillov, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.
	Church of the Transfiguration (1714), southwest view, cupolas with aspen, Kizhi Island, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.		Monastery, Cathedral of the Transfiguration (1558-66), interior, Solovetskii Island, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.
	Log Church of the Transfiguration (1679, 1717), northwest view, Izhma village, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.		Izhma village, with Izhma River, Church of the Transfiguration, and Church of Resurrection (1887), west panorama, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.
	Bell tower of Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior (1823), Slobodskoi, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.		Komsomol Prospekt, view west, with bell tower of Church of Transfiguration (1798-1832), Perm', Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.
	Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior (16th-19th centuries), northeast view across Holy Lake, with White Tower (left), Arkhangelsk Tower, and St. Nicholas Tower (right), Solovetskii Island, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.		Cathedral of the Transfiguration (1668-70s), interior, east view with icon screen, Belozersk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
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Use in Literature: Transfiguration

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	For the brief space that it lasted, it was a dark transfiguration.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	And how glorious the transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a republic!
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Non-Fiction Usage: Transfiguration

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Transfiguration

"Transfiguration" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Transfiguration" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	30	63,341

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Transfiguration

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
transfiguration	32
holy monastery transfiguration	18
the transfiguration of jesus	14
church transfiguration	13
chapel transfiguration	9
catholic church transfiguration	7
school transfiguration	5
mount of transfiguration	4
holy transfiguration	4
class transfiguration	4
harry potter transfiguration	3
transfiguration of christ	3
spells transfiguration	3
monastery transfiguration	3
raphael transfiguration	3
annie dillard transfiguration	3
beginner guide transfiguration	2
book orthodox prayer transfiguration	2
glory jesus transfiguration	2
burslem debra transfiguration	2
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Modern Translation: Transfiguration

Language		Translations for "transfiguration"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpërfytyrim, ndërrim (change, commutation, exchange, permutation, proselytism, shift, substitution). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير المظهر (transfigure), ‏تغيير المظهر, ‏تجلي, ‏عيد التجلي. (various references)

Bulgarian		метаморфоза (metamorphosis), преобразяване (leavening, metamorphosis, transformation), преображение. (various references)

Chinese		�"�變形像 . (various references)

Czech		přemìna (change, changeover, conversion, metamorphosis). (various references)

French		transfiguration. (various references)

German		Umgestaltung (alteration, rearrangement, recast, reconfiguration, remodeling, reorganization). (various references)

Greek		μεταμόρφωση (metamorphism, metamorphosis, transformation, transmogrification). (various references)

Hebrew		ש� וי צור�" (metamorphosis, reshape, transformation), �'ל�'ול � שמות (reincarnation, reincarnation of souls, transmigration). (various references)

Hungarian		megdicsõülés (apotheosis, deification), átváltozás (conversion, transformation, transmutation, transubstantiation, turning). (various references)

Italian		trasfigurazione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		変貌 , 変化 (alteration, apparition, bugbear, change, conjugation, declension, diversity, ghost, goblin, inflection, metamorphosis, mutation, transformation, transition, variation, variety). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		へ�"ぼう (left and right radicals), へ�"か (alteration, change, conjugation, declension, diversity, inflection, metamorphosis, mutation, ode in reply, transformation, transition, variation, variety). (various references)

Manx		caghlaa cummey (transfigure). (various references)

Pig Latin		ansfigurationtray

Portuguese		transfiguração. (various references)

Russian		видоизменение (change, modification, variation), преобразование (change, converting, mapping, reform, reformation, remake, reorganization, transformation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		transfiguracija, preobraženje. (various references)

Spanish		transfiguración. (various references)

Turkish		tecelli yortusu, tecelli, başkalaşım (meta-, metamorphosis), şekil değiştirme (transformation). (various references)

Ukrainian		видозміна (modification), перетворення (conversion, converting, metamorphosis, passage, reduction, reformation, transformation, transmutation). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự biến hình. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Transfiguration

Derivations
	Words beginning with "transfiguration": transfigurations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Transfiguration" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trasnfiguration. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Transfiguration

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-f-g-i-i-n-n-o-r-r-s-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: infatuations, instauration.
	-4 letters: farraginous, figurations, fruitarians, frustrating, frustration, fustigation, infatuating, infatuation, intriguants, nitrofurans.
	-5 letters: agitations, antagonist, autografts, figuration, fruitarian, guarantors, infusorian, insinuator, instarring, instigator, intrigants, intriguant, intrusting, narrations, nitrations, nitrofuran, nutritions, orangutans, outfasting, outraising, outstaring, ruinations, sanitating, sanitation, saturating, saturation, stagnation, stationing, tarnations, transiting, transition, unarrogant, unitarians, urinations.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-f-g-i-i-n-n-o-r-r-s-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: transfigurations.
	+5 letters: ultracentrifugations.
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