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Cloth’d with transcendent brightness, didst outshine 
Myriads, though bright. Milton. 
TRANSCENDENTAL, adj. [ transcendentalis , low 
Lat.] General; pervading many particulars.-—Others differ 
as to species, but as to genus are the same : such are man and 
lion. There are others again, which differ as to genus, and 
coincide only in those transcendental comprehensions of 
ens, being, existence, and the like : such are quantities and 
qualities, as for example an ounce, and the colour white, 
Harris. —-Supereminent; passing others.-—Though the Deity 
perceiveth not pleasure nor pain, as we do ; yet he must have 
a perfect and transcendental perception of these, and of all 
other things. Grew. 
TRANCENDENTLY, adv. Excellently; superemi¬ 
nently.—The law of Christianity is eminently and transcen¬ 
dent ly called the word of truth. South. 
TRANSCENDENTNESS, s. Supereminence; unusual 
excellence.—I cannot attain the measure of your transcen¬ 
dentness, but confess my disability and imperfection. Mon¬ 
tagu. 
Tv TRANSCOLATE, v. a. [ trans and colo, Lat.] To 
strain through a sieve or colander; to suffer to pass, as 
through a strainer.—The lungs are, unless pervious like a 
spunge, unfit to imbibe and transcolate the air. Harvey. 
To TRANSCRIBE, v. a. [transcribo, Lat.] To copy; 
to write from an exemplar.—He was the original of all those 
inventions from which others but transcribe copies. Cla¬ 
rendon. 
TRANSCRI'BER, s. A copier; one w'ho writes from a 
copy.—-A coin is in no danger of having its characters altered 
by copiers and transcribers. Addison. 
TRANSCRIPT, s. [transcriptum, Lat.] A copy; any 
thing written from an original.—The Grecian learning was 
but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian; and the 
Roman of the Grecian. Glanville. 
TRANSCRI'PTION, s. [ transcription , Fr. ; tran- 
scriptus, Lat.] The act of copying.-—The corruptions that 
have crept into it by many transcriptions was the cause of 
so great difference. Brerewood. 
TRANSCRI'PTIVELY, adv. In manner of a copy.— 
Not a few transcriptively subscribing their names to other 
men’s endeavours, transcribe all they have written. Brown. 
To TRANSCU'R, v. n. [transcurro, Lat.] To run or 
rove to and fro.—By fixing the mind on one object, it doth 
not spatiate and transcur. Bacon. 
TRANSCU'RSION, s. [ transcursus , Lat.] Ramble; 
passage through; passage beyond certain limits; extraor¬ 
dinary deviation.—In a great whale, the sense and the affects 
of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion 
throughout the whole. Bacon. 
TRANSE, s. [transe, Fr. See Trance.] A temporary 
absence of the sou!; an extasy. 
Abstract as in a transe, methought I saw, 
Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape 
Still glorious before whom awake I stood. Milton. 
TRANSELEMENTA'TION, s. Change of one element 
into another.—Rain we allow; but if they suppose any other 
transe lament at ion, it neither agrees with Moses’s philosophy, 
nor St. Peter’s. Burnet. 
TRANSEPT, s. [ tram and septum , Lat.] A cross aisle. 
—The pediment of the southern transept is pinnacled, not 
inelegantly, with a flourished cross. Warton. 
TRANSE'XION, [ trans and sex us, Lat] Change 
from one sex to another.—It much impeacheth the iterated 
transexion of hares, if that be true which some physicians 
affirm, that transmutation of sexes was only so in opinion, 
and that those transfeminated persons were really men at first. 
Brown. 
To TRANSFE'R, v. a. [ transfero , Lat.] To convey; 
to make over from one to another: with to, sometimes with 
upon. —By reading we learn not only the actions and the 
sentiments of distant nations, hut transfer to ourselves the 
knowledge and improvements of the most learned men. 
Watts. —-To remove; to transport.—The king was much 
moved with this unexpected accident, because it was stirred 
in such a place where he could not with safety transfer his 
own person to suppress it. Bacon. 
TRANSFER, s. A change of property; a delivery of 
property to another.—-Whether the bank of Amsterdam, 
where industry had been for so many years subsisted and 
circulated by transfers on paper, doth not clearly decide 
this point ? Bp. Berkeley. 
TRANSFERABLE, adj. That may be transferred. 
TRANSFE'RRER, One who transfers. 
TRANSFIGURATION, s. [transfiguration, Fr.] Change 
of form.-—In kinds where the discrimination of sexes is ob¬ 
scure, these transformations are more common, and in soms 
without commixture; as in caterpillars or silkworms, wherein 
there is a visible and triple transfiguration. Brown. —The 
miraculous change of our blessed Saviour’s appearance on 
the mount. > 
Did Raphael’s pencil never chuse to fall ? 
Say, are his works transfigurations all ? Blackmorc. 
To TRANSFTGURE, v. a. [trans and figure, Lat.] 
To transform ; to change with respect to outward appearance. 
The nuptial right his outrage strait attends, 
Tire dower desir’d is his transfigur'd friends: 
The incantation backward she repeats, 
Inverts her rod, and what she did defeats. Garth. 
To TRANSFI'X, v. a. [transfixus, Latin.] To pierce 
through. 
With linked thunderbolts 
Transfix us to the bottom of this gulph. Milton. 
To TRANSFO'RM, v. a. [trans and forma, Lat.] To 
metamorphose ; to change with regard to external form. 
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see 
The pretty follies that themselves commit; 
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush 
To see me thus transformed to a boy. Shakspeare. 
To TRANSFO'RM, v. n. To be metamorphosed. 
His hair transforms to down, his fingers meet 
In skinny films and shape his oary feet. Addison. 
TRANSFORMATION, s. Change of shape ; act of 
changing the form ; state of being changed with regard to 
form; metamorphosis. 
Something you have heard 
Of Hamlet’s transformation ; so I call if. 
Since not th’ exterior, nor the inward man, 
Resembles that it was. Shakspeare. 
TRAN SFRET ATI ON, s. [trans and j.return, Lat.] 
Passage over the sea.—Since the transfret at ion of King 
Richard the Second, the crown of England never sent over 
numbers of men sufficient to defend the small territory. 
Davies. 
To TRANSFUND, v. a. [transfundo, Lat.] To trans¬ 
fuse. Not in use. —The best instrument of gratitude is 
speech, that most natural, proper, and easy mean of con- 
versation, of signifying our conceptions, of conveying, and, 
as it were, transfunding our thoughts and our passions into 
each other. Barrow. 
To TRANSFU'SE, v. a. [transfusus, Lat.] To pour out 
of one- into another.—-Where the juices are in a morbid state, 
if one could suppose all the unsound juices taken away and 
sound juices immediately transfused, the sound juices would 
grow morbid. Arbuthnot. 
TRANSFU'SIBLE, adj. That may be transfused. 
Til A N S F U 'SI ON, s. [transfusus, Lat.] The act of 
pouring out of one into another.—-Something must be lost in 
all transfusion , that is, in all translations, but the sense will 
remain. Drydcn . 
TRANSFUSION OF THE BLOOD, in Physiology, the 
transfer of the blood of one animal into the vascular system 
of another, by means of a tube connected with a vein of the 
receiving animal, and an artery of the other. A vein is first 
opened, to allow the efflux of the animal's own blood, and 
thus to make room for the fresh supply. This preliminary 
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