transfiguration

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRANSFIGURA'TION, noun 1. A change of form; particularly, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount. See Matthew 17:1. 2. A feast held by the Romish church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.
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