Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRAM'PLE, v.t. [G. trampeln, trampen; Dan. tramper; Sw. trampa. If m is casual, as I suppose, these words are the D. trappen, to tread; trap, a step.]

1. To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matth. vii.
2. To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.
3. To treat with pride, contempt and insult.

TRAM'PLED, pp.

Trod on; trodden under foot.

TRAM'PLER, n.

One that tramples; one that treads down.

TRAM'PLING, ppr.

Treading under foot; prostrating by treading; treading with contempt and insult.

TRAM-POOSE', v.t. [See Trample.]

To walk with labor, or heavily.

TRAM-POOS'ING, ppr.

Traveling heavily.

TRA-NA'TION, n. [L. trano.]

The act of passing over by swimming. [Not in use.]

TRANCE, n. [tràns; Fr. transe; supposed to be from the L. transitus, a passing over; transeo, to pass over; trans and eo. The L. trans seems to be the W. tra, It. tra and tras, Sp. tras, and Fr. tres, very; so that it may be inferred that n is not radical.]

1. An ecstacy; a state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into celestial regions, or to be rapt into visions. My soul was ravish'd quite as in a trance. Spenser. When they made ready, he fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened. Acts x.
2. In medicine, catalepsy, i. e. total suspension of mental power, and voluntary motion; pulsation and breathing continuing; muscles flexible; body yielding to, and retaining any given position, not incompatible with the laws of gravitation. Trance or catalepsy, differs from ecstacy, in the circumstance that in the latter the muscles are rigid; and the body erect and inflexible. Good.

TRANC-ED, a.

Lying in a trance. And there I left him tranc'd. Shak.

TRAN'GRAM, n.

An odd thing intricately contrived. Arbuthnot. [It is said to be a cant word and is not used.]

TRAN'NEL, n.

used by Moxon, is a mistake for tree-nail, pronounced by ship-builders trunnel.

TRAN'QUIL, a. [Fr. tranquille; L. tranquillus.]

Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated. The atmosphere is tranquil. The state is tranquil. A tranquil retirement is desirable; but a tranquil mind is essential to happiness.

TRAN'QUIL-IZE, v.t.

To quiet; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotion; to tranquilize the mind. Religion haunts the imagination of the sinner, instead of tranquilizing his heart. Rob. Hall.

TRAN'QUIL-IZ-ED, pp.

Quieted; calmed; composed.

TRAN'QUIL-IZ-ER, n.

A kind of chair, in which a raving maniac may be so fixed, as to be motionless. It is used for the production of tranquillity, in a paroxysm of raving.

TRAN'QUIL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Quieting; composing.

TRAN'QUIL-IZ-ING-LY, adv.

So as to tranquilize.

TRAN-QUIL'LI-TY, n. [L. tranquillitas.]

Quietness; a calm state; freedom from disturbance or agitation. We speak of the tranquillity of public affairs, of the state, of the world, the tranquillity of a retired life, the tranquillity of mind proceeding from conscious rectitude.

TRAN'QUIL-LY, adv.

Quietly; peacefully.

TRAN'QUIL-NESS, n.

Quietness; peacefulness.

TRANS, prep.

A Latin preposition, used in English as a prefix, signifies over, beyond, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps. Hence in a moral sense, it denotes a complete change; as to transform; also, from one to another, as to transfer.

TRANS-ACT', v.t. [L. transactus, transigo; trans and ago, to act or drive through.]

To do; to perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business. We transact business in person or by an agent.

TRANS-ACT'ED, pp.

Done; performed; managed.

TRANS-ACT'ING, ppr.

Managing; performing.

TRANS-AC'TION, n.

1. The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair.
2. That which is done; an affair. We are not to expect in history a minute detail of every transaction.
3. In the civil law, an adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.