Emily Dickinson Lexicon

transfuse, v. [L. transfus, to pour.]

Remove; convey away.

transgression, n. [Fr. < L. trans, across + gradi, to step.]

1. Sin; error.
2. Passing over a boundary; [fig.] passing from life to death.

transient, adj. [L. transiens, to go across.]

Fleeting; short-lived; quickly passing.

transit, n. [L. transit-us.]

1. Transition; [fig.] passage of the sun across the horizon at sunset.
2. Transport; process of shipment; conveyance from one place to another.

transit, v. [L. 'pass away'; see sic, adv.]

transition (-s), n. [L. transition-em.]

Progress; improvement; advancement.

transitive, adj. [L. transitivus.]

1. Restless; inconstant; continually changing.
2. Fleeting; short-lived; quickly passing.

transitive, n. [see transitive, adj.]

1. Transition; power to signal change.
2. [Fig.] fleeting quality of mortality; transition from life to death.

translate (-d), adj. [L. translat-us + -ed.]

Conveyed out of mortality; removed to heaven.

translation, n. [OFr, a transporting, translation.]

1. Removing to heaven without death; [fig.] making immortal; celestialization.
2. Rendering in another language.