transmigration 
i>f tile white lilomi-e.irpn-eles from tin ,':i|,i]] in, - into the 
l-liri'imiililej li-Mle-in Minn,, nejlijl ilill:ilnlii;ill(ili. r /, , Till 
KUpp'iM',1 pa--in;r <>l the .soul hit,, :ue,1 liel l,,,,l> all, I ,1, :,t I, . 
liietenip^yeh'iMH; reim-aniatiini. 
In life'H iii-\t seene if ' I" , 
Some hear "i li',n i> le.vrvil tor Hue. 
/',,//, n, \lll, n^/elK>, ill. 1. 
The theory of tin- Ti-'iii*it<i!ii->itiini of Hnls, which has 
illilee,! risen floln its I"U '! -t;r_', - I , , , -! . ' I , I I li ]' . t! alll'INU' 
the Illiu'e |,'li'.:i,<n* ei.liimnnities of Asia, 1:1, at in IlistolA, 
enormous ev,-i, iii pi , sent mass, yet airesteil iinil a- it 
Keems henee forth llnproL'n ->i\ e ill ,le\ elnpmenl ; liut the 
III,, re hiylily e'lnrat,-,! world h;ls rejeeteil the aiieient lie- 
llef, unit it now <,nl\ Mirvives in Kurope in dwindlim; 
iiiin.ii.! I-:. /;. Tiilnf, I'rini. Culture, II. 
transmigrationism(ti-.'iii-.-mi-L,'ni'^hoii-i/Mi). . 
['< Iniiiftiiiii/i-iiliiiii + -inm. ] Tlio theory or doc- 
trine of nietciiipsvelinsis. l-'orlinijlilly HIT., 
N. S., XUII. in:;. ' 
transmigrator (tnuis'mi-gra-tor), . [< tnmx- 
niii/ralr + -or 1 .! One who tr;i immigrates. 
transmigratory (trans.mi'gra-to-ri), n. [< 
transmigrate + -///.] I 'assiug from one place, 
body, i>r stiitc to another. 
transmisst, r. ^. [< L. transmixmt*, pp. of tratw- 
iiiiltrn. transmit: see <rasmi<.] To transmit. 
/iff//. Any reversions yet? nothing transmiss'df 
liinie. No gleanings, James? no trencher analectaT 
If. Cartitrii/ht, The Ordinal? (1661). (Sara.) 
transmissibility (trans-mis-i-bil'i-ti), n. [< 
transmixmble + -ily (see -bility).} Tno character 
of being transmissible. 
Lately the transinissibility of ac(|iilred mental faculties 
has come to be an acknowledged fact. 
K. Montgomery. Mind. IX. 370. 
transmissible (trans-mis'i-bl), n. [= OF. Ininx- 
missihle = I'o;. tranxiHiioiirrl, < L. as if "Iriiiix- 
niliilix, < traiixmittrre, pp. frinixiiiixxun, trans 
mit (see transmit), + -iblf.} Capable of being 
f I'aiisiniltcd, in any sense. 
Wisely discarding those establishments which hare con- 
nected with hereditary possessions In the soil, and Iratu- 
mim/Mr dignities ill the state. Everett, Orations, I. 21(1. 
transmission (trAns-mlah'jn), n. [= F. trans- 
ini.i:iion = Sp. tranttmision, triixmixioH = Pg. 
transmistttto = It. traxminxinin; < h. trnnninix- 
*io(n-), a sending over, passage, < transmitters, 
send over, transmit: see transmit.'] 1. The act 
of transmitting, or the state of being transmit- 
ted; transmittal ; transference. 
Although an author's style may lose somewhat liy traiu- 
mission, it loses little in prose if it is good for anything ; 
not BO In poetry. 
I^andor, Imag. Oonv., Alfleri and Metastasio. 
2. Iii 610?., specifically, same as lieretlily. 
An organism, as a rule, inherits- that is to say, is born 
with the peculiarities of its parents; this is known as 
Transmission. E. K. iMnkester, Degeneration, p. 13. 
3. In nhi/sicfi, a passing through, as of light 
through glass or other transparent body, or of 
radiant heat through a diathennanous body. 
Each transparent substance has it own rate of trans- 
mission for ether-waves of each particular frequency. 
A. Danietl, Prin. of Physics, p. 459. 
transmissive (trans-mis'iv), a. [< L. trann- 
mittcre,y>p. transmissus, transmit (see transmit), 
+ -icc.J Transmitted; derived from one to 
another; sent. 
His praise, eternal on the faithful stone, 
Had with ir<m*i/t<**i<-<' honour grac'd his Son. 
Fenton, in Pope's Odyssey, i. 308, 
transmit (trans-mif), r. t. ; pret. and pp. trans- 
mitted, ppr. transmitting. [= F. tranmitttre = 
Sp. trniiKinitir, tritmnitir = Pg. transmittir = It. 
trasmtttere, < L. transmittcre, tramittere, cause 
to go across, send over, despatch, transmit, < 
i runs, over, T mittere, send: see mission.] 1. 
To send over, onward, or along; hand along or 
down; transfer; communicate: as, to transmit 
a letter or a memorial; to transmit despatches. 
Whatever they learn and know is transmitted from one 
to another. Bacon, Fable of Perseus. 
To sollclte this Peace, Peter Reuben the famous rich 
Painter of Antwerp ... as Agent was transmitted hither. 
//. L'Estranye, Heign of K. Cliarles (ed. 1665), p. 1(16. 
Resolving to transmit to posterity not only their names 
and hlotul, Imt their principles also. 
D. Webster, Speech, Concord, Sept. 30, 1834. 
2. To suffer to pass through ; conduct. 
A love whirh pure from soul to soul might pass, 
As light transmitted through a crystal glass. 
liryden, Tyrannic Love, v. 1. 
The shell of sense, growing dally thinner and more 
transparent, innxmitii-rt the tremor of his quickened 
spirit. //. James, Jr., Passionate Pilgrim, p. 107. 
Bevel-gear transmitting dynamometer. Same as 
tifilfinf''-<h/nilin(nneter. 
transmittable (trans-mit'a-bl), a. [< transmit 
+ -able.} Transmissible. 
transmittal (tvans-mit'al), ii. [< transmit + 
-al.] Transmission. 
6435 
I'ht- tran*tniii>it t<> Kiik'litnd of two-third* of the revenues 
! mil. 
Letter of transmittal, :i written nttii-iul , ,,nuuMnie,, 
lion In, in "ii, p.rs'Mi tu another, imtllylng nr advising 
tile ret ipienl tll;it ,,tll,r '1, ,t H nienl s. whieh Uhllu!l> ;t, 
e,iniKiny the letter, are sent or otherwise made over t" 
Olm Djr (be writer The phntne i ,,|lni;,l ,,r teelinh'al in 
v:n ii ,n- ,le]iartnients of the United Btates goveriinient. 
transmittance (tnnis-mifaiiK). . [< transmit 
-4- -iiiici.] Tlif act of transmit tin^, or the state 
nf lic'ini; transmitted : transmission ; transfer. 
transmitter (trans-mit'frr), N. [< triinxmit + 
-'(i.) One \vlio or that which transmits. 
The one transmitter of their ancient name, 
Their child. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field, 
spi-ciflcally (a) In teley., the sending or despatching in 
xtiitmrnt, especially that under the automatic systei 
hleh a paper strip with perforations representini; tin- 
Morse or a similar alphabet is passed rapidly through an 
instrument called an automatic transmitter, in which con- 
tacts are made by metallic point* wherever a perforation 
oeenrH. and are prevented where the paper is unplerced. 
K. II. Knii/hl. (ft) In telephony, the microphonlc or other 
apparatus, together with the funnel for receiving the 
voice and converging the waves of sound upon the thin 
iron diaphragm. Hee telephone. 
transmittible (trans-mit'i-bl), a. [X transmit 
+ -ible.] 1. Transmissible. 2f. Capable of 
being put or projected across. 
A tranrmittMe gallery over any ditch or breach In a 
town-wall. 
Martinis of Worcester, Century of Inventions, | 73. 
((Latham.) 
transmogrification (trans-mog'ri-fl-ka'shoii), 
n. [< tranmiiiH/rifn + -ation.] The act of trans- 
mogrifying, or the state of being trausmogri- 
tied. [Humorous and contemptuous.] 
But of all restorations, reparations, and transmogrifica- 
tions, that Inflicted upon the *'Cnidian Venus" [an un- 
draped statue, which has been partially draped In painted 
tin | of the Vatican is the most grotesque. 
I'll.- Xation, March 20, 1884, p. 250. 
transmogrify (trans-mog'ri-fi), t'. t.; pret. and 
pp. traiiKmiMjrified, ppr. transmogrifying. [For- 
merly also transmography ; a substitute for 
transform, the termination -mograpliy simulat- 
ing a Or. origin (cf. geography, etc.), -mogrify 
a L. origin (cf. modify).] To transform into 
some other person or thing, as by magic ; con- 
vert or transform in general. [Humorous and 
contemptuous.] 
I begin to think . . . that some wicked enchanters have 
transmoifraphied my Dulclnea. 
Fielding, Love in Several Masques, v. 4. 
Jonathan was for an instant paralysed by our Impu- 
dence; but just as we were getting before the wind, he 
yawed, and let drive his whole broadside; and fearfully 
did it transmnyrify us. M. Scott, Tom Cringle's Log, ill. 
transmontane (trans-mon-tan'), a. [< ME. 
transmontane,< OF. transmontane, < L. transmon- 
tanus, beyond the mountains, < trans, beyond, 
+ mon(t-)s, mountain, montanus, of a moun- 
tain : see mountain. Cf. tramontane, tramoun- 
tain. ('{.Also ultramontane.} Across or beyond 
a mountain or mountains. 
In that Lond, ne In many othere bexonde that, no man 
may see the Sterre transmontane, that is clept the Hterre 
of the See, that is unmevable, and that is toward the 
N, ,nlie, that we clepen the Lode Sterre. 
MandemUc, Travels, p. INI. 
Trans-montane commerce. Science, in. 220. 
transmorphism (trans-mor'fizm), n. [< L. 
trans, over, + Gr. pop<$, form, + -i*m.] The 
evolution of one thing from another; the trans- 
formation of one thing into another. 
The Democrlteans evolve the higher from the lower by 
the operation of chance. Proof there is none, and we 
will therefore substitute for the guess of transmirrphism 
the assertion of a metaschematfsm intentionally devised 
for ethical ends by the moral ruler of the world. 
Amer. Jour. PhOol., IX. 417. 
transmovet (traus-mov'), v. t. [< L. transmo- 
rere, remove, transfer, < trans, over, + movere, 
move : see move."} To transform. 
Next Saturne was, . . . 
That to a Oentaurc did him selfe transmove. 
Spenser. V. Q., III. xi. 4:). 
transmnet (trans-mu'), r. t. See tratwmew. 
transmutability (trans-mii-ta-biri-ti), n. [< 
iniiixmutable + -ity (see -bility).'] The prop- 
erty of being transmutable ; susceptibility of 
change into another nature or substance; 
transmutableness. 
transmutable (traus-mu'ta-bl), a. [< ME. triinx- 
mtttiililr, < OF. '(raMMMrfwb = Sp. trammiuht- 
l>lc, < L. as if "transmutabilis, < transmutare, 
transmute: see transmute.} Capable of being 
transmuted, or changed into a different sub- 
stance, or into something of a different form 
or nature. 
Oure 5 essencie is the instrument of alle vertues of thing 
trananutable if the! be putt In it, encreessynge an hun- 
drid foold her worchlngis. 
Bo.* of Quintr Essence (ed. FurniTall), p. 14. 
transmute 
The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily (ran* 
niiitiiMr Inl'i HIM- anotfn-t. Arbitthiutt, AliinentK. 
transmutableness (trans- nm ' t a-bl-ne- 
Tnumnntebility. 
Sumc li-arni'd iiiiHlern naturalists have conjectured at 
the easy transmutabtenfiu of water, lloyle, Works, III. I'-'i. 
transmutably (triiiis-inti'ta-bli), (/r. With or 
through trMii-iiintatiiiii : itli rapacity of belli;; 
cliauge<l into another subt:mee m nuiiire. 
transmutant (trans-mtrtant),". In ninth. ,r<-- 
]ilai'ini.' faeii'iits of a eoviiriant by tir>t ileriveil 
I'liiii'tioiis ol' a eontravariiinl, or fiieirntN of a 
contravariant by first dcriveil fnnetioim of a 
covariaiil. 
transmutatet itiaiis'mii-tai >. r. i. |< \.. / 
in a In lux, jip. of triinxiiiiitiirt; change, shift, trans- 
fer: see transmute.} To transmute; change. 
Here fortune her falrc face first Iramnntitated. 
Viean, tr. of Virgil. (Sims.) 
transmutatet (ti-ins'mn-tat), a. [< i,. / 
in n tu / ii.i, pp.: see the' verb.] Transmuted; 
change<l. 
As If the flery part of the candle were annihilated, or 
transmvtate, as some philosophers Imagine, when the can- 
dle goeth nut, and were not fire and In action still. 
Baxter, Dying Thoughts. 
transmutation (trans-mu-ta'shon), n. [< MK. 
tranxmutaciiiun, < OF. triiiininiitacion, F. ' 
mutation = Pr. transmutarin = Sp. irainoiiHlii- 
fion, trasmutacion = Pg. tranxmutitqtlo = It. 
ti-n.iiiiHta;i<iur, < L. transmutatio(n-), a changing, 
a shifting, < trausmutare, change, transmute: 
see transmute.} 1. The act of transmuting, or 
the state of being transmuted ; change into an- 
other substance, form, or nature. 
I aele to you truly that this Is the hijeste maUtrie that 
may be in transmutacioun of kynde, for ri,;t fewe lechis 
now lyuynge knowe this priiiytee. 
Book nf Quinte Kssence (ed. FumivallX p. IS. 
Within our experimental range of knowledge there is no 
tniit*iit<itti':n of elements, and no destruction or creation 
of matter. A. Daniell, Vrln. of Physics, p. 198. 
(a) In alchemy, the changing of baser metals into metals 
of greater value, especially into gold or silver. 
The conversion ... as If silver should be turned to 
gold, or Iron to copper ... Is better called, for distinc- 
tion sake, triinitiiiiitiitiiiii. Bacon, Nat Hist., | 338. 
(6) In iirinn., the change or reduction of one figure or body 
Into another of the same area or solidity hut of a different 
form, as of a triangle into a square; transformation, (c) 
In ''i'"/.. the change of one species into another by any 
means ; transpeclatlon ; transformism. The history of the 
idea or of the fact nins parallel wit h that of trarutformism, 
from an early crude or vulgar notion akin to that in- 
volved in the alchemy of metals (see almve) to the mod- 
ern scientific conception of transmutation as an evolu- 
tionary process, or the gradual modification of one species 
Into another by descent with modification through many 
generations. 
The transmutation of plants one into another is "inter 
magnalia naturae": for the transmutation of species is, in 
the vulgar philosophy, pronounced impossible; . . . hut 
seeing there appear some manifest instances of it. the 
opinion of impossibility Is to be rejected. 
Biifun, Nat Hist., i 525. 
As a palaeontologist I have from the beginning stood 
aloof from this new theory of tranxmutatwn now so wide- 
ly admitted by the scientific world. 
Agassiz, quoted in Dawson's Nature and the Bible, 
(App. B, p. 241. 
2. Successive change; alternation; inter- 
change. 
Thta wrecched worldes transmutaeioun, 
As wele or wo, now poure and now honour. 
Chaucer, Fortune, I. 1. 
And the constant change and transmutation 
Of action and of contemplation. 
Longfellow, Golden Legend, ill. 
Transmutation glaze, a name given to certain porcelain 
glazes which have an Iridescent changeable luster. = Syn. 
1. See transform, p. ' 
transmutationist (trans-mu-ta'shon-ist), . 
[< transmutation + -int.} One who believes in 
transmutation, as of metals in alchemy or of 
species in natural history ; a transformist. See 
transform ism, and transmutation, I (a) (c). 
Naturalists, being convinced by him [Darwin] as they 
had not been by the transtnutationistsof Afty years' earlier 
date, were compelled to take an entirely new view of the 
significance of all attempt* at framing a " natural " class!- 
flcatlon. Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 809. 
transmutative (trans-mu'ta-tiv), a. [< trang- 
mutatc + -ire.} Pertaining to or characterized 
by transmutation. 
It Is this conception which later developed into the t he- 
ory of an actual tranntntitntir* development of lower into 
higher organisms. Kneye. Brit.. XXIV. 816. 
transmute (trans-muf), '; pret. and pp. 
transmutitl. ppr. trainmiiitiu<i. [< late ME. trans- 
iiiuti n. < L. tranamntare, change, transmute, < 
trans, over. + mature, change: seewiMfe 2 , meifS. 
Cf . transmeir, the earlier form. ] To change from 
one nature, form, or substance into another; 
transform. 
