Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: TRANS-LAT-ED – TRANS-MIS'SION
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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.]
- The act of removing or conveying from one place another; removal; as, the translation of a disease from the foot to the breast.
- The removal of a bishop from one see to another.
- The removal of a person to heaven without subjecting him to death.
- The act of turning into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of Virgil or Homer.
- That which is produced by turning into another language; a version. We have a good translation of the Scriptures.
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.]
- The property of admitting rays of light to pass through, but not so as to render objects distinguishable. Mineralogy.
- Transparency.
TRANS-LU'CENT, a.
- In mineralogy, transmitting rays of light, but not so as to render objects distinctly visible. Cleaveland.
- 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.
- One who migrates or leaves his own country and passes into another for settlement. Bacon.
- One who passes into another state or body.
TRANS'MI-GRATE, v.i. [L. transmigro; trans and migro, to migrate.]
- To migrate; to pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residing in it; as men or families. Brown.
- 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.
- The passing of men from one country to another for the purpose of residence, particularly of a whole people.
- The passing of a thing into another state, as of one substance into another. Hooker.
- The passing of the soul into another body, according to the opinion of Pythagoras.
TRANS'MI-GRA-TOR, a.
One who transmigrates. Ellis.
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.]
- That may be transmitted or passed from one to another. Blackstone. Burke.
- That may be transmitted through a transparent body.
TRANS-MIS'SION, n. [Fr. from L. transmissio.]
- 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.
- The passing of a substance through any body, as of light through glass.