Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRANS-LAT-ED, pp.

Conveyed from one place to another; removed to heaven without dying; rendered into another language.

TRANS-LAT-ING, ppr.

Conveying or removing from one place to another; conveying to heaven without dying interpreting in another language.

TRANS-LA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. translatio.]

1. The act of removing or conveying from one place another; removal; as, the translation of a disease from the foot to the breast.
2. The removal of a bishop from one see to another.
3. The removal of a person to heaven without subjecting him to death.
4. The act of turning into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of Virgil or Homer.
5. That which is produced by turning into another language; a version. We have a good translation of the Scriptures.

TRANS-LA-TI'TIOUS, a.

Transposed; transported.

TRANS-LA'TIVE, a.

Taken from others.

TRANS-LA'TOR, n.

One who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.

TRANS'LA-TO-RY, a.

Transferring; serving to translate. Arbuthnot.

TRANS-LA'TRESS, n.

A female translator.

TRANS-LO-CA'TION, n. [L. trans and locatio, loco.]

Removal of things reciprocally to each others' places; or rather substitution of one thing for another. There happened certain translocations of animal and vegetable substances at the deluge. Woodward.

TRANS-LU'CEN-CY, n. [L. translucens; trans, through and luceo, to shine.]

1. The property of admitting rays of light to pass through, but not so as to render objects distinguishable. Mineralogy.
2. Transparency.

TRANS-LU'CENT, a.

1. In mineralogy, transmitting rays of light, but not so as to render objects distinctly visible. Cleaveland.
2. Transparent; clear. Replenish'd from the cool translucent springs. Pope.

TRANS-LU'CENT-LY, adv.

In a translucent manner.

TRANS-LU'CID, a. [L. translucidus, supra.]

Transparent; clear. [See Translucent.] Bacon.

TRANS-MA-RINE, a. [L. transmarinus; trans and marinus; mare, sea.]

Lying or being beyond the sea. Howell.

TRANS-MEW', v.t. [Fr. transmuer; L. transmuto.]

To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. [Not in use.] Spenser.

TRANS'MI-GRANT, a. [See Transmigrate.]

Migrating; passing into another country or state for residence, or in another form or body.

TRANS'MI-GRANT, n.

1. One who migrates or leaves his own country and passes into another for settlement. Bacon.
2. One who passes into another state or body.

TRANS'MI-GRATE, v.i. [L. transmigro; trans and migro, to migrate.]

1. To migrate; to pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residing in it; as men or families. Brown.
2. To pass from one body into another. Their souls may transmigrate into each other. Howell.

TRANS'MI-GRA-TING, ppr.

Passing from one country, state or body into another.

TRANS-MI-GRA'TION, n.

1. The passing of men from one country to another for the purpose of residence, particularly of a whole people.
2. The passing of a thing into another state, as of one substance into another. Hooker.
3. The passing of the soul into another body, according to the opinion of Pythagoras.

TRANS'MI-GRA-TOR, a.

One who transmigrates. Ellis.

TRANS-MI'GRA-TO-RY, a.

Passing from one place, body or state to another. Faber.

TRANS-MIS-SI-BIL'I-TY, n. [from transmissible.]

The quality of being transmissible.

TRANS-MIS'SI-BLE, a. [See Transmit.]

1. That may be transmitted or passed from one to another. Blackstone. Burke.
2. That may be transmitted through a transparent body.

TRANS-MIS'SION, n. [Fr. from L. transmissio.]

1. The act of sending from one place or person to another; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news and the like, from one country to another; or the transmission of rights, titles or privileges from father to son, and from one generation to another. Newton. Bacon.
2. The passing of a substance through any body, as of light through glass.