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To TRANSLATE, v. a. [ translator, old French; to 
remove from one place to another, as well as to interpret in 
another language. Cot grave. —[ Translatus , Latin.] To 
transport; to remove.—By faith Enoch was translated that 
he should not see death. Heb .—It is particularly used of 
Ihe removal of a bishop from one see to another.—Fisher, 
Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated 
him from that poor bishopric to a better, he refused, saying, 
he would not forsake his poor little old wife, with whom he 
had so long lived. Camden .—To transfer from one to 
another; to convey.—I will translate the kingdom from 
the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David. 2 Sam. 
—To change. 
Happy is your grace, 
That can translate the stubborness of fortune 
Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shakspeare. 
To interpret in another language; to change into another 
language retaining the sense. 
Were it meant that in despite 
Of art and nature such dull clods should write, 
Bavins and Maevius had been sav’d by fate 
For Settle and for Shadwell to translate. Duke. 
To explain. A low colloquial use. 
There’s matter in these sighs, these profound heaves 
You must translate ; ’tis fit we understand them. 
Shakspeare. 
TRANSLATION, s. \translatio,'Lz.i\n.'] Removal; act 
of removing.—His disease was an asthma; the cause a me¬ 
tastasis or translation of humours, from his joints to his lungs. 
Harvey .—The removal of a bishop to another see.—If part 
of the people be somewhat in the election, you cannot make 
them nulls or cyphers in the privation or translation. 
Bacon .—The act of turning into another language; inter¬ 
pretation.—A book of his travels hath been honoured with 
translation into many languages. Brown .—■Something 
made by translation; version.—Of translations, the better 
I acknowledge that which cometh nearer to the very letter of 
the very original verity. Hooker .—Tralation ; metaphor. 
—Metaphors, far-fet, hinder to be understood ; and, affected, 
lose their grace; or when the person fetcheth his trans¬ 
lations from a wrong place. B. Jonson. 
TRANSLATI'TIOUS, adj. [ translatice , Fr.] Trans¬ 
lative; transposed. Cotgrave a id Sherwood. —Transported 
from a foreign land. Mason. —1 have frequently doubted 
whether it be a pure indigence, or translatitious. Evelyn. 
TRANSLATIVE, adj. [ translations , Lat.] Taken from 
others. 
TRANSLATOR, s. [ translateur , old French.] One 
that turns any thing into another language. 
A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, 
To make translations and translators too. Denham. 
TRANSLA'TORY, s. Transferring —The translatory 
is a lie that transfers the merits of a man’s good action to 
another more deserving. Arbuthnot. 
TRANSLOCATION, s. [trans and locus, Latin.] Re¬ 
moval of things reciprocally to each other’s places.—There^ 
happened certain translocations at the deluge, the matter 
constituting animal and vegetable substances being dissolved, 
and mineral matter substituted in its place, and thereby like 
translocation of metals in some springs. Woodward. 
TRANSLU'CENCY, s. Diaphaneity ; transparency.— 
Lumps of rock crystal heated red hot, then quenched in fair 
water, exchanged their transluency for whiteness, the igni¬ 
tion and extinction having cracked each lump into a mul¬ 
titude of minute bodies. Boyle. 
TRANSLU'CENT, or Translu'cid, adj. [trans and 
lucens, or lucidus, Latin.] Transparent; diaphanous; 
clear; giving a passage to the light.—In anger the spirits 
ascend and wax eager; which is seen in the eyes, because 
they are translucid. Bacon .—The quarry has several other 
translucent stones, which want neither beauty nor esteem. 
Sir T. Herbert, 
TRA'NSMARINE, adj. [transmarinus, Latin.] Lying 
on the other side of the sea; found beyond sea.—She might 
have made herself mistress of Timaurania, her next trans¬ 
marine neighbour. Howell. 
To TRA'NSMEW, v. a. \transmulo, Latin.] To trans¬ 
mute ; to transform; to metamorphose; to change. Ob¬ 
solete. 
When him list the rascal routs appall, 
Men into stones therewith he could transmew, 
And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all. Spenser. 
TRANSMIGRANT, adj. [transmigrans, Latin.] Pass¬ 
ing into another country or state.—Besides an union in 
sovereignty, or a conjunction in pacts, there are other im¬ 
plicit confederations, that of colonies or transmigrants to¬ 
wards their mother nation. Bacon. 
To TRANSMIGRATE, v. n. [transmigro, Latin.] To 
pass from one place or country into another.—This com¬ 
plexion is maintained by generation; so that strangers con¬ 
tract it not, and the natives which transmigrate, omit it not 
without commixture. Brown. 
TRANSMIGRATION, s. [transmigration, French ; 
from transmigrated] Passage from one place or state into 
another.—From the opinion of metempsychosis, or trans¬ 
migration of the souls of men into the bodies of beasts, 
most suitable unto their human condition, after his death, 
Orpheus the musician became a swan. Brown. 
TRA'NSMIGRATOR, s. One who passes from one 
lace or country into another.—Whenever we find a people 
egin to revive in literature, it was owing to one of these 
causes; either to some transmigrators from those parts' 
coming and settling among them, or else to their going 
thither for instruction. Ellis. 
TRANSMISSION, s. \Jransmissus, Latin.] The act of 
sending from one place to another, or from one person to 
another.—In the transmission of the sea-water into the pits, 
the water riseth; but in the transmission of the water through 
the vessels it falleth. Bacon. 
TRANSMISSIVE, adj. [transmissus, Lat.] Transmitted; 
derived from one to another. 
Itself a sun; it with transmissive light 
Enlivens worlds deny’d to human sight. Prior. 
To TRANSMIT, v. a. [transmitto, Lat.] To send from 
one person or place to another.—He sent orders to his friend 
in Spain to sell his estate, and transmit the money to him. 
Addison. 
TRANSMITTAL, s. The act of transmitting transmission. 
Besides the transmittal to England of two-thirds of the reve¬ 
nues of Ireland, they make our country a receptacle for their 
supernumerary pretenders to offices. Swift. 
TRANSMITTER, s. One that transmits. 
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race. 
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. Savage. 
TRANSMI'TTIBLE, adj. That may be transmitted; 
that may be conveyed from one place to another.—A trans- 
mittible gallery over any ditch or breach in a town-wall, with 
a blind and parapet cannon-proof. Marq. of Worcester. 
TRANSMU'TABLE, adj. [transmuable, Fr.] Capable 
of change; possible to be changed into another nature or 
substance.—It is no easy matter to demonstrate that air is so 
much as convertible into water; how transmutable it is 
unto flesh may be of deeper doubt. Brown. 
TRANSMUTABLY, ado. With capacity of being 
changed into another substance or nature. 
TRANSMUTATION, s. [ transmuto , Lat.] Change 
into another nature or substance ; an alteration of the state 
of a thing. The great aim of alchemy is the transmutation 
of base metals into gold.—Am not I old Sly’s son, by birth 
a pedlar, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation a bear 
herd. Shakspeare. —Successive change. Not proper.— 
The same land suffereth sundry transmutations of owners 
within one term. Bacon. 
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