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TRANI, a considerable town of Italy, in the east of the 
kingdom of Naples, province of Bari, situated on the Adriatic. 
Its population is computed at 14,000. It is the see of an 
archbishop, and is situated 23 miles west-by-north of Bari, 
and 125 east-by-north of Naples. Lat. 41. 19". N. long. 16. 
28. E. 
TRANMORE, a township of England in Cheshire; 7 miles 
north-by-east of Great Neston. 
TR'ANNEL, s. A sharp pin. Perhaps from trennel .— 
With a small trannel of iron, or a large nail grounded to 
a sharp point, they mark the brick. Moxon. 
TRANQUEBAR, a seaport town of the south of India, 
province of the Carnatic, and district of Tanjore, situated at 
one of the mouths of Caveri river. The population is esti¬ 
mated at 20,000. The fort, which is called Danebourg, is 
kept in very neat order; and the buildings being all white, 
are seen from a great distance at sea. Lat. 11. N. long. 79. 
55. E. 
TRA'NQUIL, adj. [tranquillus , Lat.] Quiet; peace¬ 
ful ; undisturbed. 
I had been happy 
So I had nothing known. Oh now, for ever 
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Shakspeare. 
TRANQUPLLITY, s. [tranquillitas, Lat.] Quiet; 
peace of mind; peace of condition; freedom from perturba¬ 
tion. 
Leave off. 
To let a weary wretch from her due rest. 
And trouble dying souls’ tranquillity. Spenser. 
To TRA'NQUILLIZE, v. a. [tranquiliser, Fr.] To 
compose; to render calm. Coles. —The music employed 
ought to be of a kind which experience has proved to be 
most efficacious in soothing and tranquillizing the spirits. 
Mason. 
TRA'NQUILLY, adv. In a tranquil state or manner. 
TRA'NQUILNESS, s. State of being tranquil. 
To TRANSA'CT, v. a. [transactus, Lat. Dr. Johnson. 
In our language, transact is not ancient.] To manage; to 
negotiate; to conduct a treaty or affairs. To perform; to 
do; to carry on.—It cannot be expected they should mention 
particulars which were transacted amongst some few of the 
disciples only, as the transfiguration and the agony. Ad¬ 
dison. 
To TRANSA'CT, v. n. To conduct matters; to freat; to 
manage.—It is a matter of no small moment certainly for a 
man to be rightly informed, upon what terms, and conditions, 
he is to transact with God, and God with him, in the great 
business of his salvation. South. 
TRANSACTION, s. [ transaction , Fr.] Negotiation ; 
dealing between man and man ; management; affairs; things 
managed.'—It is not the purpose of this discourse to set down 
the particular transactions of this treaty. Clarendon. 
TRANSACTIONS, Philosophical, are a kind of 
journal of the principal things that come before the Royal 
Society of London. The Transactions contain the several 
discoveries and histories of nature and art, made by the 
members of the Society, or communicated by them from 
their correspondents, with the several experiments, obser¬ 
vations, &c. made by them, or transmitted to them, &c. 
They were first set on foot in 1665, by Mr. Oldenburg, 
secretary of the Society, and were continued by him till the 
year 1677. Upon his death, they were discontinued till 
January 1678, when Dr. Grew resumed the publication of 
them, and continued it for the months of December 1678, 
and January and February 1679, after which they were in¬ 
termitted till January 1683. During this last interval, they 
were supplied in some measure by Dr. Hooke’s Philosophi¬ 
cal Collections. They were also interrupted for three years, 
from December 1687 to January 1691, besides other smaller 
interruptions amounting to near one year and a half more, 
before October 1695, since which time the Transactions have 
been regularly carried on. 
They were for many years published in numbers, and the 
printing of them was always, from time to time, the single 
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acts of the respective secretaries, till the year 1752, when the 
Society thought fit that a committee should be appointed to 
reconsider the papers read before them, and to select out of 
them such as they should judge most proper for publication 
in the future Transactions. The members of the council 
constitute a standing committee for this purpose. They meet 
on the first Thursday of every month, and no less than seven 
members of the committee (of which number the president, 
or, in his absence, a vice-president, is always to be one) are 
allowed to be a quorum, capable of acting in relation to 
such papers. The question, with regard to the publication 
of any paper, is always decided by the majority of votes 
taken by ballot. 
They are published annually in two parts, at the expence 
of the Society, and each fellow is entitled to receive one 
copy gratis , of every volume published after his admission 
into the Society. 
The Philosophical Transactions, to the end of the year 
1700, were abridged in three volumes, by Mr. John Low- 
thorp; those from the year 1700 to 1720 were abridged in 
two volumes, by Mr. Henry Jones; those from 1719 to 
1733 were abridged in two volumes, by Mr. John Eames 
and Mr. John Martyn. Mr. Martyn continued the abridg¬ 
ment of those from 1732 to 1744, in two volumes; and 
those from 1743 to 1750, in two volumes. At the begin¬ 
ning of the present century, a complete abridgment from 
1665 to 1800, was published by Dr. Hutton and others, in 
18 vols. 4to. 
TRANSA'CTOR, s. One who manages; one who con¬ 
ducts affairs.—God, who knows and governs all things, is 
the sovereign director and transactor in matters that so come 
to pass, [the fulfilling of prophecies], Derham. 
TRANSALPINE, adj. Situate beyond the Alps; bar¬ 
barous. See Tramontane. —Travellers, that know trans¬ 
alpine garbs. Beaum. and FI. 
To TRANSA'NIMATE, v. a. [ trans and anima, Lat.] 
To animate by the conveyance of one soul from another.— 
Not men; for what spark of humanity ? nor dogs;—but, by 
the strangest p.eTep.\jvxa<rn; that ever was feigned by poets, 
very incarnated, transanimated devils. Dean Kino-. 
TRANSANIMA'TION, s. Conveyance of the soul from 
one body to another.—They believe the transanimation of 
souls into beasts and vegetables. Sir T. Herbert. 
To TRANSCE'ND, v. a. [transcendo , Lat.] To pass; 
to overpass.—It is a dangerous opinion to such popes, as shall 
transcend their limits and become tyrannical. Bacon. — 
To surpass; to outgo; to exceed; to excel. 
This glorious piece transcends what he could think; 
So much his blood is nobler than his ink. Waller. 
To surmount; to rise above.—Make disquisition whether 
these unusual lights be meteorological impressions not trans¬ 
cending the upper region, or whether to be ranked among 
celestial bodies. Howell. 
To TRANSCE'ND, v. n. To climb. Not in use. —To 
conclude, because things do not easily sink, they do not 
drown at all, the fallacy is a frequent addition in human 
expressions, which often give distinct accounts of proximity, 
and transcend from one unto another. Brown. —To surpass 
thought.—The consistence of grace and free will, in this 
sense, is no such transcending mystery, and I think there 
is no text in Scripture that sounds any thing towards making 
it so. Hammond. 
TRANSCE'NDENCE, or Transce'ndency, s. Excel¬ 
lence; unusual excellence; supereminence.—In a most weak 
and debile minister great power, great transcendence. Shak- 
speare.— Exaggeration; elevation beyond truth.—It is true 
greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security 
of a God: this would have done better in poesy, where 
transcendencies are more allowed. Bacon. 
TRANSCE'NDENT, adj. transcendens, Lat.; trans- 
cendant, Fr.] Excellent; supremely excellent; passing- 
others. 
If thou beest he—But O! how fall’n, how chang’d 
From him who in the happy realms of light, 
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