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2. Involving transportation; 
transportation. 
The statute 7 Oeo. II. c. 21 
subjecting to 
transpontine 
which cheap melodrama was formerly popular, 
and hence, in London theatrical parlance, to 
any play of a cheap, melodramatic character. 
The incidents are melodramatic, and the comic charac- 
ters are of the true transpontine race. 
Atheiurum, No. 3085, p. 793. 
Calls from transpontine and barbaric regions came fast 
upon him |O. W. Holmes, in Boston, Massachusetts] as transportaget (trans-por'tai) n 
his popularity grew. ^^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ + , .-, ,f rausportation . ' 
transport (trans-port'), *. 1. [< ME. transport*,, S ^K^%^? y C " a '' ge ; 
< OF. (and F.) transporter = Pr. Sp. transpor- lie beare along. 
tar, trasportar = Pg. transporter = It. traspor- Heywood, Fair Maid of the West (Works, ed. 1874, II. 273). 
tare, < L. transportart, carry over or across, < transportal (trans-por'tal), w. [< transport + 
trans, over, + portare, carry: see porft.'] 1. -al.~] The act of removal from one locality to 
To convey from one place to another; transfer, another; transportation. 
transposition 
act in the eye of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness, 
that will crown our endeavours here with happiness here- 
after. Tillotxon. 
portable for seven years) iuiilawfuny and maliciously to as- transportingly (traus-por'ting-li), adv. Ill a 
sanlt another _with any offensive weapon or instrument, transporting manner ; ravishiugly. 
transportivet (trans-por'tiv), a. [< transport 
+ -(><.] Passionate ; excessive. 
with a felonious intent to rob. 
Maclfstone, Com., IV. xvii. 
[< transport 
The kyng, gredy of comune slaughter, caste hym to trans- 
porter [var. transpor] upon al the ordre of the senat the 
gilt of his real majeste. Chaucer, Boethius, i. prose t. 
Her ashes . . . 
Transported shall be at high festivals 
Before the kings and queens of France. 
Shalt., 1 Hen. VI., i. 6. 26. 
The bee transports the fertilizing meal 
From flow r to flow'r. Camper, Task, iii. 538. 
It is easy to realize the enormous floating and trans- 
porting power of such great bodies of ice. 
The relative length of these organs [pistils and stamens] 
is an adaptation for the safe tranxportal by insects of the 
pollen from the one form to the other. 
Danrin, Different Forms of Flowers, p. 253. 
transportancet (trans-por'tans), 11. [< trans- 
port + -ance.~\ Conveyance. 
It is the voice of transportive fury, "I cannot moderate 
my anger." llev. T. Adams, Works, II. 315. 
transportmentt (trans-port'ment), n. [< OP. 
transportement, < transporter," transport: see 
transport.'] 1. The act of transporting, or the 
state of being transported ; transference. 
Are not you he, when your fellow-passengers, 
Your last tranit[i(trtment, being assail'd by a galley, 
Hid yourself i' the cabin? 
Fletcher (and another), Queen of Corinth, iv. 1. 
2. Passion ; anger. 
There he attack'd me 
With such transportment the whole town had rung on 't 
Had I not run away. Digby, Elvira, iv. (Dairies.) 
transport-rider (trans'p6rt-ri"der), n. A car- 
""" [South Africa.] 
O, be thou my Charon, 
And give me swift transporlance to those fields 
Where I may wallow in the lily-beds 
Proposed for the deserver ! 
Shak., T. and C., iii. 2. 12. transport-ship (triins'port-ship), w. 
I hired myself to drive one of a transport-rider's wag- 
ons. Olive Schreiner, Story of an African Farm, ii. 11. 
2f. To trausform; alter. J ology>i - m transportantt (trans-por'taut), a. [<. transport 
And in to sorow transport our gladnesse, h '""^ Transporting; ravishing. 
nsport our gladi 
Our huge uigour to feblesse this instance, 
Our plesire into displesance expresse, 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), L 3739. 
3f. To remove from this world; kill: a euphem- 
istic use. 
He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported. 
Shale., M. N. D., iv. 2. 4. 
.. -- , , ,. ._,... A ship or 
other vessel employed in conveying soldiers, 
military stores, or convicts; a transport, 
transport-vessel (trans'port-ves"el), H. Same 
.. (Latham.) &s transport-ship. 
transportation (trans-por-ta'shon), . f< F. transposable (trans-po'za-bl), a. [< transpose 
msportacM = Sp. trans- + -< e -J Capable of being transposed. 
So rapturous a joy, and transportant love. 
Dr. H. More, Mystery of Godliness, p. 227. 
. , -i 1.1 
transportation = Pr. transportacw = Sp. trans- + -" ble -l Ca Pble of being transposed. Imp. 
variation, trasportacion = Pg. transportarao = Vict - , .. . 
It. trasportasione, < L. transportation-), a, re- tran sppsal (trans-po zal), . [< transpose + 
moving, transporting, < transportare, pp. Irons- 7 N lne act of transposing, or the state of 
portatus, remove, transport: see transport.-] 1. oemg transposed ; transposition. Sirift, Tale 
4m . , , . , , JTT" ' ""> loiiiwv^. Liaiin MH i . nut' (i ffit-ffl/ut t. I * m i 
. To carry into banishment as a criminal to The act of transporting, or conveying from one f a Tub > 
a TlPTlfll Pnmnv fow\T VmArrtnH orinu l . _ . J - ""~ T.TQ onncjfl 
a penal colony ; carry beyond seas. 
But we generally make a shift to return after being 
transported, and are ten times greater rogues than before, 
and much more cunning. 
Swift, Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston. 
And never mind what Felix says, for he 's so masterful 
he'd stay in prison and be transported whether or no only 
to have his own way. George Eliot, Felix Holt, xxxviii. 
5. To carry away by strong emotion, as joy or 
anger; carry out of one's self; render beside 
one's self. 
The hearts of men, . . . 
Transported with celestial! desyre 
Of those faire formes, may lift themselves up hyer. 
Spenser, Hymn of Heavenly Beauty, 1. 18. 
Oh, my joys ! 
Whither will you transport me? 
Beau, and Ft., Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 1. 
transport (trans'port), n. [< F. transport = Sp. 
transports, trasporte = Pg. transports ; from the 
verb.] 1. Transportation; carriage; convey- 
ance. 
The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to 
furnish them with ships both for transport and war. 
Arbuthnot, Ancient Coins, p. 239. 
The transport of blocks by ice in rivers of cold climates 
has often been described. Prestutich, Geology, i. 190. 
2f. Transformation; alteration. 
Many are now poor wandering beggars . . . who are de- 
scended of the blood and lineage of great kings and em- 
perors, occasioned ... by the transport and revolutions 
of kingdoms and empires. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 2. 
, n A 
place to another, or the state of being so trans- trans Pse (trans-poz ), v. t. ; pret. and pp. trans- 
ported; carriage; conveyance; transmission. 
There may be transportation and isolation of very small 
fragments of a very variable species. 
Amer. Jour. Set., XL. 9. 
2. The removal or banishment, for a specified 
term, of a convict to a penal settlement in an- 
other country. The transportation of persons convict- 
ed of crime prevails in France and Russia, but in Great 
Britain it is now superseded by penal servitude. See 
penal. 
3. Transport; ecstasy; rapture. 
She did bite her lips in pronouncing the worts softly to 
herself; sometimes she would smile, and her eyes would 
sparkle with a sudden transportation. 
History of Francion (1655). (Nares.) 
All pleasures that affect the body must needs weary, 
because they transport ; and all transportation is a vio- 
lence, and no violence can be lasting. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 211. 
4. Means of transporting, as wagons or other 
vehicles; also, the cost of traveling. [U. S.] 
A lot of miscellaneous transportation, composed of rid- 
ing-horses, ambulances, and other vehicles, which, over 
mud, made their 
'osea, ppr. transposing. [<"ME. traitsposen, < 
uF. (and F. ) transposer, transpose; cf. Sp. 
transponer, trasponcr = Pg. traspor = It. tras- 
ponere, trasporre, < L. transponere, set over, 
remove, < trans, over, + ponere, place: see po- 
nent andjjose'A] If. To remove to a different 
place; transfer; transport. 
So many other nations of the world haue beene trans- 
posed and forced to flie from one region to another. 
Verxtegan, Rest, of Decayed Intelligence (ed. 1628), p. 43. 
Bethink you of a place 
You may transpose her. 
Shirley, Maid's Revenge, iii. 1. 
2. To cause (two or, less frequently, more ob- 
jects) to change places. 
" This infant was called John Little," quoth he ; 
"Which name shall be changed anon ; 
The words we'll transpose ; so, wherever he goes, 
His name shall be call'd Little John." 
Robin Hood and Little John (Child's Ballads, V. 222). 
3. In alg., to bring, as any term of an equa- 
tion, over from one side to the other side. See 
transposition, 2. 4. In rliet., to change the 
504. 
Transportation of a church, in Scottish ecdes. law, the 
erection of a parish church in a different part of the par- 
ish from that in which the church formerly stood. 
Transportation of the church to another part of the par- 
ish requires the sanction of the Court of Teinds, but not 
3. A ship or vessel employed by government a mere ~ variation of its site 
*,. ^ ,._u: ___ _-f_iJ<__ W. Mair, Digest of Church Laws, p. 284. 
the tonality of (a piece orpassage) from a given 
tonality, either in performance or in transcrip- 
tion. See transposition, 4. 6f. To transform. 
That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose; 
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 21. 
Inference of transposed quantity. See inference. 
for carrying soldiers, warlike 'stores', o"r provi- x , w ' Uair ' Digest ' Church Law8 ' p ' 284 ' .Transposed quantity. See quantity 
sionsfrom one place to another, or to convey fransportedlyt (trans-por'ted-li), adv. In a transposet (trans-poz ), n. [< transpose, c.] 
,.,, ;,.f.. +^ *!, ! * ti..:_ j ij__x._ transported manner; especially, in a state of 
rapture. 
Transposition. 
This man was very perflt and fortunate in these trans- 
If we had for God but half as much love as we ought, **"** ** Arte of Eng. Poesie ii (canceled 
or even pretend to have, we could not but frequently (if . 
not transportedly) entertain our selves with his leaves, transposer (trans-po'ser), n. [< transpose + 
- - --.^.^uxociiMmueuioeim, which ^ at once his writi 8 8 ^ h^pictures. __ -erl.] One who transposes. Imp. Diet. 
he had been a transport he could not have been treated * f j , t . - ,"""' , ' ' ,, transposing Ctrans-po^iug), p. a. Serving to 
worse. Hetoldhisfatherthathewasdrivinghimonthe wansportedness (trans-por'ted-nes), n. The transpose; effecting transposition .-TransDos 
' condition of being transported ; the state of ' 
being beside one's self, as with anger, joy, or 
some other emotion. 
convicts to the place of their destination. 
Grant organized an expedition to counteract this design, 
and on the evening of November 6 left Cairo with about 
3000 men on transports, under convoy of 2 gun-boats and 
steamed down the river. The Century, XXXVI. 675. 
4. A convict transported or sentenced to exile. 
road to transportation. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 470. 
5. Vehement emotion ; passion; rapture: ec- 
stasy. 
In the afternoone I went againe with my Wife to the 
Dutchess of Newcastle, who receiv'd her in a kind of trans- 
port, suitable to her extravagant humour and dresse. 
Evelyn, Diary, April 27, 1667. 
I broke open my letter in a transport of joy. 
Addition, A Friend of Mankind, transportec (trans-por-te'), n. 
Transport screw. Seescrewi. 
That we who are old men, Christian philosophers and 
divines, should have so little government of ourselves, as 
to be puffed up with those poor accessions of titular re 
spects, which those who are really and hereditarily pos- 
sessed of can wield without any such taint or suspicion 
of transportedness ! Bp. Hall, Works, VIII. 488. 
One who has 
._, [Australia.] 
[< transporter (trans-por'ter), n. [< transport + 
been transported; a convict. 
transportability (trans-por-ta-bil'i-ti), w. 
transportable + -ity (see -bility).'] The charac- -er l .J One who or that which "transports or 
er of being transportable; the capacity of be- removes. 
f-lo?, trani l PC ui te< ^ What 'I 1 * 11 beco me of that unspeakably rich transporter 
transportable (trans-p6rta-bl),. [=F. trans- wno carries out men and money, . . . and brings home 
portable = It. trasportabi'le ; as transport + 8 ftud8 and puppets? Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 571. 
-aftte.] 1. Capable of being transported. transporting (trans-por'ting), p. a. [Ppr. of 
The direct result of a union of two or more distinct pro- transport, .] Ravishing with delight ; bearing 
toplasmic masses, in plant life, is a condensed, inactive away the soul in pleasure ; ecstatic 
eZ^e? ndit ^^ m^Uve^d JT ^ " " 
unsporting touches 
-r - - - Transpos- 
ing instrument, amusical instrumentwhich isconstruct- 
ed or adjusted to be played in a given tonality, as a B-flat 
clarinet, but the music for which is customarily written 
in another tonality, usually that of c. Music for various 
instruments mostly wind-instruments, such as clarinets, 
trumpets, horns, etc., and also double basses and tympani 
is habitually thus written. The name is more or less 
deceptive, since all that is meant by writing such music 
nominally in the key (tonality) of C is that the desired 
tones have certain tonal relations that is, are definitely 
related to a key-note, the pitch of that key-note being fixed 
by the construction or the adjustment of the instrument. 
Accordingly, a generalized notation, like that of the tonic 
sol-fa system, is more appropriate, in which the tonal re- 
lations are indicated irrespective of the absolute pitch of 
the key-note. Transposing pianoforte, a pianoforte 
on which transposition can be effected by purely mechan- 
ical means. In some cases the strings are moved without 
disturbing the keyboard ; in some the keyboard is shifted 
bodily, and in some the keyboard is made in duplicate, 
the upper digitals being movable over the lower. One of 
the last-mentioned devices is called transpositeur. Trans- 
posing organs, harpsichords, etc., have also been made. 
. Transposing scale. See model, 7(a)(l). 
uman mind with the transposition (trans-po-zish'on), n. [< F. truiix- 
s is the sense that we position = Pr. tranx/ioxitiv = Sp. tranxposivion, 
