Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRAN-SCRIP'TION, n. [Fr.]

The act of copying. Corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

TRAN-SCRIP'TIVE-LY, adv.

In manner of a copy. Brown.

TRANS-CUR', v.i. [L. transcurro; trans and curro, to run.]

To run or rove to and fro. [Little used.] Bacon.

TRANS-CUR'RENCE, n.

A roving hither and thither.

TRANS-CUR'SION, n. [supra.]

A rambling or ramble; a passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation; as, the transcursion of a comet. More. I am to make often transcursions into the neighboring forests as I pass along. Howell. [Excursion has in a great measure superseded this word.]

TRANS-DUC'TION, n. [L. trans and duco.]

The act of conveying over. Entick.

TRANSE, n.

Ecstasy. [See Trance.]

TRANS-EL-E-MENT'A-TION, n. [trans and element.]

The change of the elements of one body into those of another, as of the bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. Burnet.

TRAN'SEPT, n. [L. trans and septum.]

In ancient churches, the aisle extending across the nave and main aisles. Cyc.

TRAN-SEX'ION, n.

Change of sex. [Not used.]

TRANS'FER, n.

1. The removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.
2. The conveyance of right, title or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, either by sale, by gift or otherwise.

TRANS-FER', v.t. [L. transfero; trans and fero, to carry.]

1. To convey from one place or person to another; to transport or remove to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another. The seat of government was transferred from New York to Albany. We say, a war is transferred from France to Germany. Pain or the seat of disease in the body, is often transferred from one part to another.
2. To make over; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to sell; to give. The title to land is transferred by deed. The property of a bill of exchange may be transferred by indorsement. Stocks are transferred by assignment, or entering the same under the name of the purchaser in the proper books.

TRANS-FER'A-BLE, a.

1. That may be transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.
2. Negotiable, as a note, bill of exchange or other evidence of property, that may be conveyed from one person to another by indorsement or other writing. The stocks of the public and of companies are transferable.

TRANS-FER'RED, pp.

Conveyed from one to another.

TRANS-FER-REE', n.

The person to whom a transfer is made. Hamilton.

TRANS-FER'RENCE, n.

Act of transferring.

TRANS-FER'RER, n.

One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

TRANS-FER'RING, ppr.

Removing from one place or person to another; conveying to another, as a right.

TRANS-FIG-UR-A'TION, n. [Fr. See Transfigure.]

1. A change of form; particularly, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount. See Matth. xvii.
2. A feast held by the Romish church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned. Cyc.

TRANS-FIG'URE, v.t. [L. trans and figura; Fr. transfigurer.]

To transform; to change the outward form or appearance. And was transfigured before them. Matth. xvii.

TRANS-FIG'UR-ED, pp.

Changed in form.

TRANS-FIG'UR-ING, ppr.

Transforming; changing the external form.

TRANS-FIX', v.t. [L. transfixus, transfigo; trans and figo.]

To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; as, to transfix one with a dart or spear. Dryden.

TRANS-FIX'ED, pp.

Pierced through.

TRANS-FIX'ING, ppr.

Piercing through with a pointed weapon.