Trans-lāte’1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. TRANSLATED; p. pr. & vb. n. TRANSLATING.] [Lat. transferre, translatum, O. Fr. translater, N. Fr. traduire, Pr. translator, Sp. translator, trasladar, It. translatare, tralatar, tralataire. See TRANSFER.]
Sense 1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another.
In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show the head—the rest of the body being translated to Rome. Evelyn.
Sense 2. To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
Sense 3. To change to another condition, position, or office; to transfer; to transform; hence, to remove as by death.
By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death. Heb. xi. 5.
The Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him to a better bishopric, refused. Camden.
Sense 4. Hence, also, to cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs. and rare.]
And the good gentleman Fell to the bottom,... Jumbled his joints together, And was translated. J. Fletcher.
Sense 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words. “Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.” Macaulay.
Sense 6. To change into another form; to transform.
Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shak.