translation 
receiving-instrument, the object being to obtain a strong 
current to work the sounder or recorder. Energy of 
translation, equation of translation, principle of 
translation, surface of translation, sue energy, etc. 
-Translation of a feast, the postponement to some 
future day of the observance of a feast, when the day of 
its ordinary observance falls upon a festival of superior 
rauk. = Syn.l. (a) Translation, Version, rendering. Trans- 
lation and version are often the same in meaning. Trans- 
lation is rather the standard word. Version is more likely 
to be employed in proportion to the antiquity of the 
work : as, the Syriac version; Dryden's vernionof the Nun's 
Priest's Tale ; it is also more commonly used of the Bible 
than of other books : as, a comparison of the authorized 
with the revised version. Where translations differ, they 
are often spoken of as versions, as Lord Derby's and Mr. 
Bryant's translations or tvrsions of Homer. Version ap- 
plies more to the meaning, translation more to the style. 
Each has meanings not shared by the other. 
translational (trans-la'shou-al), a. [< trans- 
lation + -Hi.'] Pertaining to or having the char- 
acter of translation. See translation, 6. 
The whole translational energy . . . must ultimately 
become transformed . . . into vibrational energy. 
Philos. Mag., 6th ser., XXX. clxxxii. 95. 
translatitioust (trans- la -tish'us), a. [< L. 
translaticius, translations, handed down, trans- 
mitted, hereditary, < translatus, pp. of trans- 
ferre, transfer, translate: see translate. Cf. 
tralatitious] 1. Transmitted; transferred; he- 
reditary. 
I have frequently doubted whether it be a pure indigene, 
or translatitious. Evelyn, Sylva, I. iv. 8. 
2. Same as tralatitious. 
A delegated translatitious Majesty we allow. 
Milton, Answer to Salmasius, vii. 179. 
translative (trans'la-tiv), a. [= Sp. transla- 
tivo, traslativo = It. 'traslativo; as translate + 
-ive] Relating or pertaining to translation; 
especially, involving transference of meaning; 
metaphorical. [Kare.] 
If our feete Poeticall want these qualities, it can not be 
sayd a foote in sence translatiue as here. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 56. 
translator (trans-la'tor), ii. [= F. translateitr 
= It. traslatore (cf. Sp. Pg. trasladador = It. 
traslatatore), < L. translator, one who transfers 
or interprets, < translates, pp. of transferre, 
transfer, translate: see translate.] One who 
or that which translates. 
The changer and translator of kyngedoms and tymes. 
Joye, Expos, of Daniel, v. 
Specifically (a) One who renders something spoken or 
written in one language into another : as, he held the 
office of public translator. 
A noble author would not be pursued too close by a 
translator. We lose his spirit when we think to take his 
body. Dryden, Orig. and Prog, of Satire. 
(6) A cobbler of a low class, who manufactures boots and 
shoes from the material of old ones, selling them at a low 
price to second-hand dealers. [.Slang.] 
The cobbler is affronted if you don't call him Mr. Trans- 
lator. Tom Brotcn, Works, III. 73. (Varies.) 
(c) pi. Second-hand boots mended and sold at a low price. 
[Slang.] 
A costermonger . . . will part with everything rather 
than his boots, and to wear a pair of second-hand ones, or 
translators (as they are called), is felt as a hitter degrada- 
tion by them all. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 51. 
(d) In teleff., a sensitive receiving-instrument used for 
retransmitting a message, or for translation : commonly 
called a relay, (e) Any instrument for converting one form 
of energy into another : thus, the magneto-electric engine 
which transforms the power of a steam-engine into elec- 
tricity is a translator. 
translator? (trans'la-to-ri), a. [< translate + 
-ory] 1 . Transferring ; serving to translate. 
The translator^ is a lie that transfers the merits of a 
man's good action to another more deserving. Arbuthnot. 
2. Same as translational. 
The translator^ velocity of the whirlwind itself. 
The Atlantic, XLIX. 331. 
translatress (trans-la'tres), it. [< translator + 
-ess.] A woman who translates, in any sense 
of that word. 
Your great Achilles, Cardinal Perron (in French; as also 
his noble Translatress, misled by him, in English), . . . 
hath made bold with the Latin tongue. 
Chillingu'orth, Religion of Protestants, I. vi. 29. 
translavationt (trans-la-va'shon), n. [< L. 
trans, over, + lavatio(n-), a wastiing: see lave 1 .] 
A laving or lading from one vessel into an- 
other. 
This translaimtion ought so long to he continued out of 
one yessell into another, untill such time as it have done 
casting any residence downward. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxxiv. 18. 
transleithan (trans-li'than), a. [< tram- + 
Leitha (see def.) + -an.] Beyond the Leitha, a 
river flowing partly along the boundary between 
Hungary and the archduchy of Austria : noting 
that division of the empire of Austria-Hungary 
which has its seat in Budapest. Compare Aus- 
trian^. 
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transliterate (trans-lit'e-rat), r. t. : pret. and 
pp. transliterated, ppr. transliterating. [< L. 
trans, over, + litera, letter: see letter^, literate.] 
To express or write, as words of a language 
having peculiar alphabetic characters, in the al- 
phabetic characters of another language ; spell 
(the same, or approximately the same, sound) 
in different characters. 
Greek names transliterated Into a Latin alphabet are 
subject to the laws of Latin phonology. 
Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I., Pref., p. ix. 
transliteration (trans-lit-e-ra'shon), n. [< 
transliterate + -ion] The act of transliterat- 
ing; the rendering of a letter or letters of one 
alphabet by equivalents in another. 
The transliteration does not profess to give all the exact 
vocalic differences. The Academy, June 28, 1890, p. 448. 
transliterator (trans-lit'e-ra-tor), . [< trans- 
literate + -orl.j One who transliterates; one 
who makes a transliteration. 
It seems to have been the object of the transliterator to 
represent, at least approximately, in Anglo-Saxon letters 
the current pronunciation of the Greek words. 
J. Hadley, Essays, p. 128. 
translocalization (trans-16"kal-i-za'shon), . 
[< trans- + localization.] Same as transloca- 
tinn. 
Patients often unfold a train of reminiscence extempore 
upon any theme, and sometimes cannot repeat the same 
pseudo-experience twice alike, translocaluations in time 
being especially common. Amer. Jour. Psychol., I. 538. 
translocate (trans-16'kat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
translocated, ppr. translocating. [< L. trans, 
over, + locatus, pp. of locare, place: see locate] 
To cause to change place, or to exchange places ; 
put in a different relative position ; displace ; 
dislocate. 
In the Batrachians the ribs have been translocated from 
the original position on the intercentrum to the neura- 
pophyses. Amer. Nat., XXI. 944. 
translocation (trans-lo-ka'shon), n. [< trans- 
+ location.] The act of translocating, or the 
state of being translocated. Also translocali- 
zation. 
The translocation of the souls of beasts into such matter 
as is most fitting for them. 
Dr. H. More, Immortal, of Soul, iii. 13. 
translucet (trans-lus'), v. t. [<L. translucerc, 
shine across or through: see translucent.] To 
shine through. 
Let Joy transluce thy Beauties' blandishment. 
Davies, Holy Roode, p. 26. (Dames.) 
translucence (trans-lu'sens), n. [< transln- 
cen(t) + -ce] Same as translncency. 
translucency (trans-lu'sen-si), . [As trans- 
lucence (see -cy).] The property of being trans- 
lucent. 
The spheres 
That spight thy crystalline translucencie. 
Davies, Witte's Pilgrimage, sig. C iv. b. (Latham.) 
translucent (trans-lu'sent), a. [< L. translu- 
cen(t-)s, ppr. of tramiucere, shine across or 
through, < trans, over, + lucere, shine : see lu- 
cent. Cf. tralucent.] 1. Transmitting rays of 
light, without being transparent, as alabaster. 
The subtle essence acted on him like a charmed draught, 
and caused the opaque substance of his animal being to 
grow transparent, or at least translucent; so that a spir- 
itual gleam was transmitted through it with a clearer lus- 
tre than hitherto. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, vii. 
2. Transparent; clear. 
The golden ew'r a maid obsequious brings, 
Replenish'd from the cool, translucent springs. 
Pope, Odyssey, i. 180. 
translucently (trans-lu'sent-li), adv. In a 
translucent manner. Drayton, Edward IV. to 
Mistress Shore, Annotation 3. 
translucid (trans-lu'sid), a. [= F. transliicide 
= Sp. traslucido = Pg. translucido = It. trans- 
lucido, traslucido, ( L. translucidns, traslitcidus, 
shining through, < translitcere, shine through: 
see translucent. Cf. lucid.] Translucent. 
Flowers whose purple and translucid bowls 
Stand ever mantling with aerial dew. 
Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, iii. 3. 
translunar (trans-lu'nar), a. [< L. trans, across, 
+ luna, moon: see lunar] Being beyond the 
moon : opposed to sublunary. Drayton, To Hen- 
ry Reynolds. 
translunary (trans'lu-na-ri), a. Same as trans- 
lunar. 
transmarine (trans-ma-ren'), a. [< F. IntH-K- 
marin = Pg. transmarine = Sp. It. transmarino, 
trasmarino, < L. transmarinits, beyond or from 
beyond sea, < trans, over, + mare, sea, marinus, 
of the sea, marine: see marine] Located or 
existing beyond the sea. 
Their Dutch appellations are really too hard 
To be brought into verse by a transmarine Bard. 
Barham, Ingoldshy Legends, II. 19. 
transmigration 
transmeable (trans'me-a-bl), a. [< L. tranx- 
meare, tramcare, go over or through (sec trans- 
meate), + -able] Capable of being transmeated 
or traversed. Jiailey, 1727. [Rare.] 
transmeate (traus'me-at), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
transmeated, ppr. ti'aiixmeating. [< L. trann- 
meatus, Irameatiis, pp. of transmeare, trameare, 
go over or through, < trans, over, + tneare, go, 
pass : see meatus. Cf. permeate.] To pass over 
or beyond. Coles. [Rare.] 
transmeation (trans-me-a'shon), n. [< trans- 
meate + -ion.] The act of trausmeating, or 
passing through. Bailey, 1731. [Rare.] 
transmedian (traus-me'di-an), a. and n. [< 
trans- + median.] I. a. Passing or lying across 
the median line of the body, as a muscle. Also 
mediotransverse. 
II. n. The transmedian muscle of a brachio- 
pod. T. Davidson, Encyc. Brit., IV. 193. 
transmeridional (trans-me-rid'i-o-nal), a. [< 
trans- + meridian + -al (see meridional)] Cross- 
ing a meridian ; forming an angle with a merid- 
ian. 
How the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean shores came 
to have general transmeridional trends is a question 
which must find its solution in the events of Mesozoic 
and Csenozoic geological history. 
Winchell, World-Life, p. 355. 
transmewt (trans-mu'), v. t. [Also triiimmiii-: 
< ME. transmewen, transmuen, transnntwen, < 
OF. transnmer = Pr. transmitdar, trasiintditr = 
Sp. transmutar, trasmutar = Pg. transmudar = 
It. transmutare, trasmutare, < L. transmutare, 
change into another form : see transmute. Cf. 
mew$.] To transmute; transform; metamor- 
phose. 
Thow moost me feret transmuwen in a stoon. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 467. 
Men into stones therewith he could transmew. 
Spenser, I". Q., I. vii. 35. 
To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful 
forester. Scott, Ivanhoe : xx. 
transmigrant (trans'mi-grant), a. and n. [< L. 
transmigrants, ppr. of trdnsmigrare, transmi- 
grate : see transmigrate.] I. a. Passing into 
another coiintry or state for residence, or into 
another form or body ; migrating. Imp. Diet. 
II. . 1. One who migrates or leaves his own 
country and passes into another for settlement ; 
a colonist. 
There are other . . . implicit confederations. That of 
colonies, or transmigrants, towards their mother nation. 
Bacon, Holy War. 
2. One who passes into another state or body. 
Imp. Diet. 
transmigrate (trans'mi-grat), v. ; pret. and pp. 
transmigrated, ppr. transmigrating. [< L. trans- 
migratvs, pp. of transmigrare (> It. trasmigrare 
= Sp. transmigrar, trasmigrar=F. transmigrer), 
remove from one place to another, < trans, over, 
+ migrare, depart, migrate: see migrate. Cf. 
emigrate, immigrate] I. intrans. 1. To mi- 
grate ; pass from one country or jurisdiction to 
another for the purpose of residing in it. 
This complexion . . . is evidently maintained by gener- 
ation, ... BO that strangers contract it not, and the natives 
which transmigrate amit it, not without commixture. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 10. 
2. To pass from one body into another; be 
transformed ; specifically, to become incarnate 
in a different body ; metempsychosize. 
It [the crocodile] lives by that which nourisheth it ; and, 
the elements once out of it, it transmigrates. 
Shale., A. and C., ii. 7. 61. 
Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela records in the 12th century 
of the Druses of Mount Hermon: " They say that the soul 
of a virtuous man is transferred to the body of a new-born 
child, whereas that of the vicious transmigrates into a 
dog, or some other animal." 
. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 13. 
II. trans. To cause to pass or migrate from 
one region or state of existence to another. 
Excellent Spirits are not by Death extinguished or neg- 
lected, but are rather transmigrated from the earth, to 
reigne with the Powers aboue. 
Heyicood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 463. 
transmigration (trans-mi-gra'shon), n. [< ME. 
transmigration!, < OF. (and F.) transmigration: 
= Sp. transmigration, trasmigracion = Pg. trans- 
migrayao = It. trasmigrazione, < LL. transmi- 
gratio(n-), < L. transmigrare, transmigrate: see 
transmigrate] The act of transmigrating; pas- 
sage from one place, state, or form into another. 
Lately hath this peerlesse man [Isaac Casabonus] made 
a happy transmigration out of France into our renowned 
island of great Britaine. Coryat, Crudities, I. 48. 
What see I on any side but the transmigrations of Pro- 
tens? Einersmi, History. 
Specifically (a) In physiol, the passage of cells through 
a membrane or the wall of a vessel : as, the transnnyratiim 
