This ability is written Transfigure (cost). A player who controls a creature with transfigure, any time a sorcery could be cast, may pay its transfigure cost and sacrifice it to search his or her library for a creature with the same converted mana cost as the sacrificed creature and put it directly onto the battlefield. It is a variant on the trans... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Magic:_The_Gathering_keywords#Typecycl
• (v. t.) Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to. • (v. t.) To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/transfigure/
1. To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform. ... 2. Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to. '[Jesus] was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.' (Matt. Xvii. 2) ... Origin: F. Transfigurer, L. Transfigurare, tra... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973