trans-fĭgūro — Lewis & Short
trans-fĭgūro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I to change in shape, to transform, transfigure, metamorphose (post-Aug.; cf.: verto, muto).
I Lit.:
puerum in muliebrem naturam,Suet. Ner. 28:
in simiae speciem transfiguratus,id. ib. 46:
in lupum,Plin. 8, 22, 34, § 81:
in scorpiones,id. 9, 31, 51, § 99:
in pumicem (al. mutantur),id. 13, 25, 50, § 139:
et qui corpora prima transfigurat,i. e. Ovid in the Metamorphoses, Stat. S. 2, 7, 78:
amygdalae ex dulcibus transfigurantur in amaras,Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 237:
aede Castoris et Pollucis in vestibulum transfigurata,Suet. Calig. 22; Vulg. Matt. 17, 2; id. Marc. 9, 1. —With se: Satanas transfigurat se in angelum lucis. Vulg. 2 Cor. 11, 14.—
II Trop., to change, transform:
judicum animos in eum quem volumus habitum formare et velut transfigurare,Quint. 6, 2, 1: intellego, non emendari me tantum, sed transfigurari, Sen. Ep. 6, 1.—
B Esp.
1 With se, to assume to be, pretend to be:
transfigurantes se in apostolos,Vulg. 2 Cor. 11, 13.—
2 To express under a figure of speech:
haec transfiguravi in me et Apollo propter vos,Vulg. 1 Cor. 4, 6.