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  • 51MÉTALLURGES — Modifier les substances, tel est, dans les diverses traditions folkloriques et mythologiques, le pouvoir des métallurges, mineurs et forgerons. Une telle science, qui s’apparente à l’alchimie, possède ses méthodes, ses techniques, son rituel, ses …

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  • 52affouiller — [ afuje ] v. tr. <conjug. : 1> • 1835; de à et fouiller ♦ Provoquer l affouillement de. ⇒ creuser, éroder, excaver. ● affouiller verbe transitif (de fouiller) Creuser, en parlant des eaux tourbillonnaires. Remuer le fond, en parlant des… …

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  • 53magicien — magicien, ienne [ maʒisjɛ̃, jɛn ] n. • XIVe; d ab. adj. « magique »; de magique 1 ♦ Personne qui pratique la magie. ⇒ alchimiste, astrologue, devin, enchanteur, 1. mage, nécromancien, sorcier, thaumaturge. Prodiges, enchantements d un magicien.… …

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  • 54change — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Alteration Nouns 1. change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, innovation, metastasis; transition; menopause; deviation, flux, turn; shift; diversion, break; reform,… …

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  • 55transfiguration — (n.) late 14c., from L. transfigurationem, noun of action from pp. stem of transfigurare (see TRANSFIGURE (Cf. transfigure)). In English, originally the change in appearance of Christ before his disciples (Matt. xvii:2; Mark ix:2,3). The non… …

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  • 56transform — transform, metamorphose, transmute, convert, transmogrify, transfigure can all mean to turn or change one thing into another or a different thing or from one form into another and different form. In general, the same differences in implications… …

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  • 57trans|fig|u|ra|tion — «trans FIHG yuh RAY shuhn», noun. 1. the change in the appearance of Christ on the mountain (in the Bible, Matthew 17:2; Mark 9:2 3). 2. the church festival on August 6 in honor of this. ╂[< Latin trānsfigūrātiō, ōnis < trānsfigūrāre; see… …

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  • 58Trans|fig|u|ra|tion — «trans FIHG yuh RAY shuhn», noun. 1. the change in the appearance of Christ on the mountain (in the Bible, Matthew 17:2; Mark 9:2 3). 2. the church festival on August 6 in honor of this. ╂[< Latin trānsfigūrātiō, ōnis < trānsfigūrāre; see… …

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  • 59Trans- — [L. trans across, over.] A prefix, signifying over, beyond, through and through, on the other side, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps; transform, to form through and through, that is, anew, transfigure. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 60Transfigurate — Trans*fig u*rate, v. t. To transfigure; to transform. [R.] [1913 Webster] …

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