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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Trăns-fū'sĭve, a. p. 1403Tending to transfuse, or having power to transfuse.Trans-grĕss’, v. t. p. 1403To pass over or beyond; to surpass. [Rare.] 2. Hence, to overpass, as any rule prescribed as the limit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral. Man will hearken to his glozing lies…Trans-grĕss', v. i. p. 1403To offend by violating a law; to sin. “Achan, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.” 1 Chron. ii. 7.Trans-grès'sion, n. p. 1403The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law or rule of moral duty; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command. Forgive thy people . . . all their…Trans-grĕs'sion-al, a. p. 1403Pertaining to, or involving, a transgression.Trans-grĕss’ive, a. p. 1403Disposed to transgress; faulty; culpable. Adam, perhaps, would have sinned without the suggestion of Satan, and from the transgressive infirmities of himself might have erred alone, as well as the…Trans-grĕss'ive-ly, adv. p. 1404In a transgressive manner; by transgressing.Trans-grĕss’or, n. p. 1404One who breaks a law or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner. The way of transgressors is hard. Prov. xiii. 15.Tran-shāpe′, v. t. p. 1404To transform. See TRANS-SHAPE. [Rare.] By a gracious influence transhaped Into the olive, pomegranate, mulberry. Webster, 1625.Tran-ship′, v. t. p. 1404To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another. See TRANSSHIP.Tran-ship'ment, n. p. 1404The act of transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another. See TRANSSHIPMENT.Trans-hū'man, a. p. 1404More than human. “What transhuman change.” Cary.Trān’sien-cy, n. p. 1404The quality of being transient.Trān'sient, a. p. 1404Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not…Trān'sient-ly, adv. p. 1404In a transient manner; in passage; for a short time; not with continuance. I touch here but transiently . . . on some few of those many rules of imitating nature which Aristotle drew from Homer.…Trăn'sient-ness, n. p. 1404The state of being transient; shortness of continuance; speedy passage.Tran-sil'i-ence or Tran-sil'i-en-cy, n. p. 1404A leap across or from thing to thing. [Rare.] Glanville.Trans-ī're, n. p. 1404(Com.) A custom-house clearance for a coasting vessel. Simmonds.Trāns'it, n. p. 1404The act of passing; passage through or over. In France you are now . . . in the transit from one form of government to another. Burke. 2. The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the…Trāns'it, v. t. p. 1404To pass over the disk of, as a heavenly body.Trāns'it-cĭr'cle, n. p. 1404A transit instrument with a graduated circle attached, used for observing both transits and declinations. Nichol.Trāns'it-cŏm'pass, n. p. 1404A species of theodolite, consisting of a telescope revolving in a vertical plane on an horizontal axis, as in a transit-instrument, combined with a compass, a graduated horizontal limb, &c., used for…Trāns'it-dū'ty, n. p. 1404A duty paid on goods that pass through a country.Trāns'it-in'stru-ment, n. p. 1404A telescope mounted at right angles to an horizontal axis, on which it revolves with its line of collimation in the plane of the meridian, used in connection with a clock for observing the time of…Tran-siʹtion, n. p. 1404Passage from one place or state to another; change; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold. The spots are of the same color throughout, there being an immediate transition from white to…Transition rocks p. 1404the lowest uncrystalline stratified rocks, supposed to contain no fossils, and so called because thought to have been formed when the earth was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state.…Tran-sĭ'tion-al, a. p. 1404Containing, involving, or denoting transition.Tran-sĭ'tion-ā'ry, a. p. 1404Transitional.Trān'si-tīve, a. p. 1404Having the power of making a transit or passage. [Rare.] De Quincey. 2. Effected by transference of signification. Although by far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of…Transitive p. 1404verb (Gram.), a verb which is or may be followed by an object; a verb expressing an action which passes from the agent to an object, from the subject which does to the object on which it is done.Trān'si-tive-ly, adv. p. 1404In a transitive manner.Trān'si-tīve-ness, n. p. 1404The state or quality of being transitive.Trān'si-to-ri-ly, adv. p. 1404In a transitory manner; of short continuance.Trān'si-to-ri-ness, n. p. 1404The state of being transitory; speedy departure or evanescence.Trān'si-to-ry, a. p. 1404Continuing only for a short time; speedily vanishing or ceasing to be; fleeting; evanescent. O Lord, comfort and succor all them who, in this transitory life, are in trouble. Com. Prayer. It was not…Trāns'it-trāde, n. p. 1404(Com.) The business connected with the passage of goods through a country, to their destination.Trans-lāt'a-ble, a. p. 1404Capable of being translated or rendered into another language.Trans-lāte’, v. t. p. 1404To 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. 2. To cause to remove from…Trans-lāte', v. i. p. 1404To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.Trans-lā'tion, n. p. 1404The act of translating, removing, transferring; removal; as, the translation of a bishop, and the like. 2. The state of being translated or removed. 3. The act of translating, or rendering into…Trāns'la-tī'tious, a. p. 1404Transposed; transported. [Obs.] Evelyn.Trans-lāt'ive, a. p. 1404Taken from others. [Rare.]Trans-lāt'or, n. p. 1404One who translates; especially, one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.Trans-lāt'or-ship, n. p. 1404The office of a translator; also, a translator.Trans-lāt'o-ry, a. p. 1404Serving to translate; transferring. Arbuthnot.Trans-lāt'ress, n. p. 1404A female translator; she who translates.Trāns'la-vā'tion, n. p. 1404A laving or lading from one vessel to another. [Obs.] Holland.Trans-lit'er-āte, v. t. p. 1404To express by means of different, and usually simpler, alphabetic characters; as, to transliterate Arabic or Sanskrit words into English letters. A. J. Ellis.Trāns/lo-cā'tion, n. p. 1404Removal of things reciprocally to each other's places; substitution of one thing for another. There happened certain translocations of animal and vegetable substances at the deluge. Woodward.…Trans-lū'cence or Trans-lū'cen-cy, n. p. 1404The state of being translucent; clearness; partial transparency.Trans-lū’cent, a. p. 1404Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; pellucid. 2. Transparent; clear. Replenished from the cool, translucent springs. Pope. Syn.—TRANSLUCENT, TRANSPARENT. A…Trans-lū’cent-ly, adv. p. 1404In a translucent manner.Trans-lū'cid, a. p. 1404Transparent; clear; translucent. [R.] Bacon.Trāns'lū-na-ry, a. p. 1404Being or lying beyond the moon; — opposed to sublunary. [Obs.] Neat Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave, translunary things That the first poets had. Drayton.Trāns′ma-rīne′, a. p. 1404Lying or being beyond the sea. Howell.Träns'me-a-ble, a. p. 1405Capable of being passed across or through. [Obs.]Trāns'me-āt'a-ble, a. p. 1405Capable of being passed over or beyond.Trans'me-āte, v. t. p. 1405To pass over or beyond. Cole.Trāns/me-ā'tion, n. p. 1405The act of transmeating; a passing through or beyond. [Obs.]Trans-mew', v. t. p. 1405To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. [Rare.] “To trans-mew thyself from a holy hermit to a sinful forester.” W. Scott.