Dictionary: TRANS-PORT-ED-NESS – TRAN-SUME

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TRANS-PORT-ED-NESS, n.

A state of rapture. Bp. Hall.

TRANS-PORT-ER, n.

One who transports or removes.

TRANS-PORT-ING, ppr.

  1. Conveying or carrying from one place to another; removing; banishing for a crime.
  2. adj. Ravishing with delight; bearing away the soul in pleasure; ecstatic; transporting as, transporting joy.

TRANS-PORT'ING-LY, adv.

Ravishingly.

TRANS-PORT-MENT, n.

Transportation. [Little used.] Hall.

TRANS-POS-AL, n. [transpo'zal. from transpose.]

The act of changing the places of things, and putting each in the place which was before occupied by the other.

TRANS-POSE, v.t. [transpo'ze; Fr. transposer; trans and poser, to put.]

  1. To change the place or order of things by putting each in the place of the other; as, to transpose letters, words or propositions. Locke.
  2. To put out of place. Shak.
  3. In algebra, to bring any term of an equation over to the other side. Thus if a+b=c, and we make a=c-b, then b is said to be transposed.
  4. In grammar, to change the natural order of words.
  5. In music, to change the key.

TRANS-POS-ED, pp.

Being changed in place and one put in the place of the other.

TRANS-POS-ING, ppr.

  1. Changing the place of things and putting each in the place of the other.
  2. Bringing any term of an equation over to the other side.
  3. Changing the natural order of words.

TRANS-PO-SI'TION, n. [Fr. from L. transpositio.]

  1. A changing of the places of things and putting each in the place before occupied by the other; as, the transposition of words in a sentence.
  2. The state of being reciprocally changed in place. Woodward.
  3. In algebra, the bringing of any term of an equation to the other side.
  4. In grammar, a change of the natural order of words in a sentence. The Latin and Greek languages admit transposition without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English.
  5. In music, a change in the composition, either in the transcript or the performance, by which the whole is removed into another key. Busby.

TRANS-PO-SI'TION-AL, a.

Pertaining to transposition. Pegge.

TRANS-POS'IT-IVE, a.

Made by transposing; consisting in transposition.

TRANS-SHAPE, v.t. [trans and shape.]

To change into another form.

TRANS-SHAP-ED, pp.

Transformed.

TRANS-SHAP-ING, ppr.

Transforming.

TRAN-SUB-STAN'TIATE, v.t. [Fr. transubstantier; trans and substance.]

To change to another substance; as, to transubstantiate the sacramental elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ, according to the popish doctrine.

TRAN-SUB-STAN'TIA-TED, pp.

Changed to another substance.

TRAN-SUB-STAN'TIA-TING, ppr.

Changing to another substance.

TRAN-SUB-STAN-TI-A'TION, n.

Change of substance. In the Romish theology, the supposed conversion of the bread and wine in the eucharist, into the body and blood of Christ. Cyc.

TRAN-SUB-STAN'TI-A-TOR, n.

One who maintains the popish doctrine of transubstantiation. Barrow.

TRAN-SU-DA'TION, n. [from transude.]

The act or process of passing off through the pores of a substance; as sweat or other fluid. Boyle.

TRAN-SU'DA-TO-RY, a.

Passing by transudation.

TRAN-SUDE, v.i. [L. trans and sudo, to sweat.]

To pass through the pores or interstices of texture, as perspirable matter or other fluid; as, liquor may transude through leather, or through wood.

TRAN-SUD-ING, ppr.

Passing through the pores of a substance, as sweat or other fluid.

TRAN-SUME, v.t. [L. transumo; trans and sumo, to take.]

To take from one to another. [Little used.]