Dictionary
An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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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.Trāns'mi-grant, a. p. 1405Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another.Trans'mi-grant, n. p. 1405One who transmigrates.Trans'mi-grāte, v. i. p. 1405[Lat. transmigrare, transmigratum, from trans, across, and migrare, to migrate; It. trasmigrare, Sp. transmigrar, trasmigrar. 1. To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of…Trāns'mi-grā'tion, n. p. 1405The act of transmigrating. 2. Especially, the passing of the soul into another body, according to the opinion of Pythagoras.Trāns′mi-grā′tor, n. p. 1405One who transmigrates.Trans-mi’gra-to-ry, a. p. 1405Passing from one body, or state, to another.Trans-mis'si-bil'i-ty, n. p. 1405The quality of being transmissible.Trans-mis'si-ble, a. p. 1405Capable of being transmitted or passed from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.Trans-mis'sion, n. p. 1405The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; or the transmission of rights, titles…Trans-mis'sive, a. p. 1405Capable of being transmitted; derived from one to another. Itself a sun, it with transmissive light, Enlivens worlds denied to human sight. Prior.Trans-mīt’, v. t. p. 1405To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; as, to transmit a letter or a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money or bills of…Trans-mit'tal, n. p. 1405Transmission. [Rare.] Swift.Trans-mīt'tance, n. p. 1405Transmission. See TRANSMISSION.Trans-mīt'ter, n. p. 1405One who transmits.Trans-mĭt'ti-ble, a. p. 1405Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.Trans-mōg'ri-fi-cā'tion, n. p. 1405The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation. [Colloq. and low.]Trans-mōg'ri-fy, v. t. p. 1405To change into a different shape; to transform. [Colloq. and low.]Trans-mōve', v. t. p. 1405To move from one thing or place to another; to transform. [Obs.] Spenser.Trans-mū'ta-bĭl'i-ty, n. p. 1405The quality of being transmutable.Trans-mūt'a-ble, a. p. 1405Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into something of a different form or nature. The fluids and solids of an animal body are transmutable into one another.…Trans-mūt'a-ble-ness, n. p. 1405The quality of being transmutable. “The easy transmutableness of water.” Boyle.Trans-mūt'a-bly, adv. p. 1405In a transmutable manner.Trăns'mu-tā'tion, n. p. 1405The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals. 2. (Geom.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a…Trăns'mu-tā'tion-ist, n. p. 1405One who believes in the transmutation of metals or species.Trans-mūte', v. t. p. 1405To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform. The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. Buckminster. Transmuting sorrow into…Trans-müt'er, n. p. 1405One who transmutes.