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He read Talmudic tales of Sulieman-ben-Daoud -- even in name transfigured out of any resemblance to an amasser of reliable axioms -- that proud luxurious despot "who went daily to the comeliest of the spirits for wisdom"; and of Arthur and the Lady Nimuë; and of Thomas of Ercildoune, whom the Queen of Faëry drew from the merchants 'market-place with ambiguous kindnesses; and of John Faustus, who "through fantasies and deep cogitations" was enabled to woo successfully a woman that died long before his birth, and so won to his love, as the book recorded,

The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

One recent discussion speculated whether creatures "transfigured" by Transfiguration spell acquired the full set of features of the target creature.

In Fullness of Time 2005

One recent discussion speculated whether creatures "transfigured" by Transfiguration spell acquired the full set of features of the target creature.

March 2005 2005

[1] In the same way the Buddha was "transfigured".

Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

With the exception of Job, the Hebrews almost invariably employed a poet -- when they could get one -- as a kind of transfigured policeman -- to keep the sky off.

The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

Doctor Prance told him Miss Birdseye noticed nothing; she had sunk, within a few days, into a kind of transfigured torpor; she didn't seem to know whether Mr. Ransom were anywhere round or not.

The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) Henry James 1879

Luke does not use the word transfigured -- metamorphothe (which

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Greek. but be ye transformed -- or, "transfigured" (as in Mt 17: 2; and 2Co 3: 18,

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

He had been transfigured like all the rest—not transformed, but transfigured.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

His eyes were shining like an angel's, and his face was transfigured, purged of all earthly dross, and pure and holy.

Chapter 12 2010