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To TRANSMUTE, v. a. [transmuto, Lat.] To change 
from one nature or substance to another.—That metals may 
be transmuted one into another, I am not satisfied of the 
fact. Ray. 
TRANSMITTER, s. One that transmutes. 
TRA'NSOM, s. [transenna, Lat.] A thwart beam or 
lintel over a door.—[Among mathematicians.] The vane of 
an instrument called a cross staff, being a piece of wood fixed 
across with a square socket upon which it slides. Bailey. 
TRANSPARENCY, s. [ transparence , Fr.] Clearness; 
diaphaneity; translucence; power of transmitting light.—. 
A poet of another nation would not have dwelt so long upon 
the clearness and transparency of the stream ; but in Italy 
one seldom sees a river that is extremely bright and limpid, 
most of them being muddy. Addison. 
TRANSPARENT, adj. [trans and appareo, Lat.] Per¬ 
vious to the light; clear; pellucid; diaphanous; translu¬ 
cent; not opaque. 
Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright, 
Through the transparent bosom of the deep. 
As doth thy face through tears of mine give light. 
Thou shin’st in every tear that I do weep. Ska/cspcare. 
TRANSPARENTLY, ado. Clearly; so clearly as to be 
seen through.—Bodies almost transparently fair. Whit¬ 
lock. 
TRANSPARENTNESS, s. The state or quality of being 
transparent. Ash. 
To TRANSPA'SS, v. a. To pass over.—The river Hy- 
phasis, or, as Ptolemy calleth it, Bipasis, was Alexander’s 
non ultra; which yet he transpassed, and set up altars on 
the other side. Gregory. 
To TRANSPA'SS, v. n. To pass by; to pass away.— 
Not so proper as the verb active. 
Which shall so soon transpass. 
Though far more fair than is thy looking-glass. Daniel. 
TRANSPI'CUOUS, adj. [tram and specio, Lat.] Trans¬ 
parent ; pervious to the sight. 
What if that light. 
Sent from her through the wide transpicuous air, 
To the terrestrial moon, be as a star ? Milton. 
To TRANSPI'ERCE, v. n. [ transpercer , Fr.] To pe¬ 
netrate ; to make way through; to permeate. 
A mind, which through each part infus’d doth pass, 
Fashions and works, and wholly doth transpierce 
All this great body of the universe. Ralegh. 
TRANSFERABLE, adj. [ transpirable , Fr.] Capable 
of transpiring. Cotgrave and Sherwood. 
TRANSPIRATION, s. [transpiration, Fr.] Emission 
in vapour.—The transpiration of the obstructed fluids is 
imagined to be one of the ways that an inflammation is re¬ 
moved. Sharp. 
To TRANSPIRE, v. a. [transpiro, Lat.] To emit in 
vapour. 
To TRANSPIRE, v.n. [transpirer, Fr.] To be emitted 
by insensible vapour.—The nuts fresh got are full of a soft 
pulpy matter, which in time transpires, and passes through 
the shell. Woodward. —To escape from secrecy to notice. 
—If they have raised a battery, as I suppose they have, it is a 
masked one, for nothing has transpired. Ld. Chester¬ 
field. 
To TRANSPLA'CE, v. a. To remove; to put into a 
new place.—-It was transplaced from the left side of the 
Vatican unto a more eminent place. Wilkins. 
To TRANSPLA'NT, v. a. [ trans and planto, Lat.] 
To remove and plant in a new place. 
The noblest fruits transplanted in our isle. 
With early hope and fragrant blossoms smile. Roscommon. 
To remove and settle.—If any transplant themselves into 
plantations abroad, who are schismatics or outlaws, such are 
not fit to lay the foundation of a new colony. Bacon.— To 
remove. 
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Of light the greater part he took 
Transplanted from her cloudy shrine, and plac'd 
In the sun’s orb. Milton. 
TRANSPLANTATION, s. The act of transplanting or 
removing to another soil.—It is confessed, that love changed 
often doth nothing; nay, it is nothing ; for love, where it is 
kept fixed to its first object, though it burn not, yet it warms 
and cherishes, so as it needs no transplantation, or change 
of soil, to make it fruitful. Suckling. —Conveyance from 
one to another.—AVhat noise have we had for some years 
about transplantation of diseases, and transfusion of blood. 
Baker _Removal of men from one country to another.— 
This appears a replication to what Mentlaus had offered con¬ 
cerning the transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta. Broome. 
TRANSPLA'NTER, s. One that transplants. 
TRANSPLENDENCY, Supereminent splendour.— 
The supernatural and unimitable transplendency of the Di- 
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TRANSPLENDENT, adj. Supereminently splendid. 
TRANSPLE'NDENTLY, adv. With supereminent splen¬ 
dour.—The divinity, with all its adorable attributes, is hypos- 
tastically, vitally, and transplendently residing in this hu¬ 
manity of Christ. More. 
To TRANSP'ORT, v. a. [trans and porto, Latin.] To 
convey by carriage from place to place. 
Why should she write to Edmund! might not you 
Transport her purposes by word? Shakspeare. 
To carry into banishment, as a felon.—We return after 
being transported, and are ten times greater rogues than be¬ 
fore. Swift. —To sentence as a felon to banishment. To 
hurry by violence of passion. 
You are transported by calamity 
Thither where more attends you, and you slander 
The helms o’ th’ state. Shakspeare. 
To put into extasy ; to ravish with pleasure.—Here trans¬ 
ported I behold, transported touch. Milton. 
TRANSPORT, s. Transportation; carriage; convey¬ 
ance.—The Romans neglected their maritime affairs: for 
they stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with 
ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot. —A vessel of car¬ 
riage; particularly a vessel in which soldiers are conveyed. 
Nor dares his transport vessel cross the waves, 
With such whose bones are not compos’d in graves. Dry den. 
Rapture; extasy.—A truly pious mind receives a tem¬ 
poral blessing with gratitude, a spiritual one with extacy and 
transport. South .—A felon sentenced to exile. 
TRANSPORTANCE, s. Conveyance; carriage; re¬ 
moval. 
O, be thou my Charon, 
And give me swift transportance to those fields, 
Where I may wallow in the lily beds 
Propos’d for the deserver! Shakspeare. 
TRANSPORTANT, adj. Affording great pleasure.— 
So rapturous a joy, and transportant love. More. 
TRANSPORTATION, s. Conveyance; carriage.— 
Cottington and Porter had been sent before to provide a 
vessel for their transportation. Wotton .—Transmission or 
conveyance.—Some were not so solicitous to provide against 
the plague, as to know whether we had it from the malignity 
of our own air, or by transportation. Dryden. —Banish¬ 
ment for felony.—Extatic violence of passion.—All pleasures 
that affect the body must needs weary, because they trans¬ 
port, and all transportation is a violence; and no violence 
can be lasting but determines upon the falling of the spirits. 
South. 
TRANSPO'RTEDLY, ado. In a state of rapture. 
TRANSPO'RTEDNESS, s. State of rapture.—What a 
mean opinion doth this imply,—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 respects, which those, who are really and 
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