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μετασχημα^τ-ίζω ,
A.change the form of a person or thing, Pl.Lg. 903e, Arist.GC335b26; “τὸ σῶμα τῆς ταπεινώσεως” Ep.Phil.3.21; of a building, Sammelb.5174.10 (vi A. D.):—Med., with Att. fut. -ιοῦμαι, change one's form, Demetr.Lac.Herc.1012.12; disguise oneself, J.AJ8.11.1:—Pass., to be changed in form, Pl.Lg.906c, Arist. Cael.298b31, GA747a15, D.S.2.57; of grammatical change, A.D. Pron.68.5, al.
II. μ. τι εἰς ἐμαυτόν transfer as in a figure, 1 Ep.Cor. 4.6.
III. change the posture of, Sor.2.62 (Pass.), al.
IV. of stars and planets, in Pass., change their configuration, “πρὸς ἀλλήλους” Adam.Vent.47.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 8.11.1
    • New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 4.6
    • New Testament, Philippians, 3.21
    • Plato, Laws, 903e
    • Plato, Laws, 906c
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