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(
1421
) trois vertues y sont qe font l'alme de homme estre converse et transfiguree: c'est adire foie [...], espoir [...] et charité
Rot Parl1 iv 150
♦theol.Bibl.to transfigure, change (the appearance of Jesus Christ on the mountain) (Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 11:2-3):
(
s.xiv2; MS: c.1400
) Certes quant Nostre Seignour en le montaigne est transfiguré devant sez disciples, ‘resplendoit sa face sicom le solail’
Lichfield 57.3
transfigurer a, en
to transform, metamorphose, change into (the shape of):
(
s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4
) muez Est en beste et transfigurez
S Audree1 3021
(
s.xiii3/4; MS: c.1275
)(women) furent transfiguree
[sic] en hummes
Suidas 615
(
1309; MS: s.xvi2
) ne unq[ue]s n'out leroy [...] cele duchesse conquis sy non par la queyntyse un Merleyne nigramauncien a l'hour, qi le (ms. se) transfigura a la semblaunce l'avantdit duk Bodmound
Petit Bruit 12.14
v.refl.
to transform, metamorphose, alter one’s appearance:
(
1260-70; MS: s.xiv1
) Le diable sey transfigura, Ausicum femme apparut
Man pechezants 6620
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex ) C'est ly malfié, ly tricheour [...] Se transfigure nuyt et jour, Dont il meulx quide en sa folour L'alme en serra plus entrepris
GOWERMirour 14770
♦theol.Bibl.(of Jesus Christ on the mountain) to transfigure, become glorious in appearance (Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 11:2-3):
(
1421
) nostre seignur Jhesu Crist prist trois de ses disciples vers le mont, qant y pluist soi transfigurer
Rot Parl1 iv 150
se transfigurer en
to transform, metamorphose, change oneself into (the shape of):
(
c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin
) deable ki se transfigurent en angles
Eluc 87.30
p.p. as a.
transfiguré en
changed, metamorphosed, transformed into:
(
1260-70; MS: s.xiv1
) Kant le Diable a luy venayt En furme d’humme transfiguré [...]
Man pechezants 9111
transfigurer (c.1200)