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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

transfigure XIII. — (O)F. transfigurer or L. transfigūrāre, f. TRANS- + figūra FIGURE.
So transfiguration XIV (first in ref. to the change in the appearance of Jesus Christ as narrated in Matt. 17:2, Mark 9:2–3).

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