T R A 
T R A 
66 
hereditarily possessed of, can wield without any such taint or 
suspicion of transportedness. Bp. Hall, 
TRANSPO'RTMENT, s. Transportation or convey¬ 
ance in ships. 
You,— 
Your last transportment being assail’d by a galley, 
Hid yourself i’ the cabin. Beaum. and FI. 
TRANSPO'RTER, s. One that transports.—The pil¬ 
chard merchant may reap a speedy benefit by dispatching, 
saving, and selling to the transporters. Carew. 
TRANSPO'SAL, s. The act of putting things in each 
other’s place. Swift. 
To TRANSPOSE, v. a. \transpositum, Lat.] To put 
each in the place of other.— Transpose the propositions, 
making the rnedius terminus the predicate of the first and the 
subject of the second. Locke. —To put out of place; to 
remove. 
That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose; 
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Shakspeare. 
TRANSPOSITION, s. [transposition , Fr.] The act of 
putting one thing in the place of another.—Perspicuity of 
style is often hindered by the ornaments of speech;—by too 
curious a transposition of words from their natural place; 
by using too many metaphors. Instr. for Oratory. —The 
state of being put out of one place into another.—The com¬ 
mon centre of gravity in the terraqueous globe is steady, and 
not liable to any accidental transposition, nor hath it ever 
shifted its station. Woodward. 
TRANSPOSITIONAL, adj. Relating to transposition. 
—The most striking and most offensive error in pronun¬ 
ciation among the Londoners, I confess, lies in the transpo¬ 
sitional use of the letters w and v, ever to be heard where 
there is any possibility of inverting them. Thus they always 
say, weal, instead of veal; vicked, for wicked. Pegge. 
To TRANSSHA'PE, v. a. To transform; to bring into 
another shape.—I’ll tell thee how Beatrice prais’d thy wit: I 
said thou hadst a fine wit; right, said she, a fine little one; 
nay, said I, he hath the tongues; that I believe, said she; for 
he swore a thing to me on Monday night which he forswore 
on Tuesday morning; there’s a double tongue: thus did she 
transshape thy particular virtues. Shakspeare. 
TRANSTRUM, a term used to express a sort of cross or 
transverse seats that were placed in the polycrote gallies of 
ancient times, and served for the places of several of the rows 
of men, who could move and work their oars under the seats 
of the other or lateral rowers of the next tire. 
Meibomius, who has written expressly on the naval archi¬ 
tecture of the ancients, has better understood the places and 
use of these transtra, than any other author of late times; by 
a proper arrangement of these seats, and the lateral ones above 
and below each, he has taken off greatly from the height 
allowed by Scaliger, and others, to the polycrote vessels. 
To TRANSUBSTANTIATE, v. a. [transubstantier, 
Fr.] To change to another substance. 
Nor seemingly, but with keen dispatch 
Of real hunger, and concoctive heat. 
To transubstantiate; what redounds, transpires 
Through spirits with ease. Milton. 
TRANSUBSTANTIA'TION, s. {transubstantiation, Fr.] 
A miraculous operation believed in the Romish church, in 
which the elements of the eucharist are supposed to be 
changed into the real body and blood of Christ.—How is a 
Romanist prepared easily to swallow, not only against all 
probability, but even the clear evidence of his senses, the 
doctrine of transubstantiation ? Locke. 
TRANSUBSTA'NTIATOR, s. One who maintains the 
Romish notion of transubstantiation.—It may serve to guard 
us from diverse errors,—such as that of the Roman transub- 
stantiators, who affirm that the body of our Lord is here 
upon earth at once present in many places, namely, in every 
place where the host is kept, or the eucharist is celebrated. 
‘Barrow. —There were in the primitive times some heretics, 
who thought those words of Christ concerning the eating his 
flesh, and drinking his blood, were to be understood grossly 
and literally of oral eating, just as the transubstantiators at 
this day pretend. Dr. Potter. 
TRANSUDATION, s. The act of passing in sweat, or 
perspirable vapour, through any integument.—The drops 
proceeded not from the transudation of the liquors within 
the glass. Boyle. 
To TRANSU'DE, v. n. To pass through in vapour.— 
Purulent fumes cannot be transmitted throughout the body 
before the maturation of an aposthem, nor after, unless the 
humour break; because they cannot transude through the 
bag of an aposthem. Harvey. 
TRANS VE'RSAL, adj. \trans and versalis, Lat.] 
Running crosswise.—An ascending line, direct, as from son 
to father, or grandfather, is not admitted by the law of 
England; or in the transversal line, as to the uncle or aunt, 
great-uncle or great-aunt. Hale. 
TRANSVE'RSALLY, adv. In a cross direction.—There 
are divers subtile inquiries and demonstrations concerning 
the several proportions of swiftness and distance in an arrow 
shot vertically, horizontally, or transversally. Wilkins. 
To TRANSVE'RSE, v. a. [transversus , Lat.] To 
change; to overturn.—Nothing can be believed to be reli¬ 
gion by any people, but what they think to be divine; that 
is, sent immediately from God: and they can think nothing 
to be so, that is in the power of man to alter or transverse. 
Leslie. 
TRANSVE'RSE, adj. [transversus , Lat.] Being in a 
cross direction. 
His volant touch 
Fled and pursu’d transverse the resonaBt fugue. Milton. 
TRANSVE'RSELY, adv. In. a cross direction.—At 
Stonehenge the stones lie transversely upon each other. 
Stilling fleet. 
To TRANSU'ME, v. a. [transumo, Lat.] To take from 
one thing to another; to convert one thing into another. 
Bread and wine 
Transum'd, and taught to turn divine. Crayshaw. 
TRA'NSUMPT, s. [transumpt , old Fr.; transumptum, 
Lat.] An exemplification or copy of a record. Cotgrave. 
—The pretended original breve was produced, and a tran¬ 
sumpt or copy thereof offered them. Ld. Herbert. 
TRANSU'MPTION, s. The act of taking from one. 
place to another.—Having by a kind of transutuption and 
accommodation borrowed those former words of his. South. 
TRANSYLVANIA, a large province of the Austrian em¬ 
pire, bounded by Hungary on the north and west, and by 
European Turkey on the east and south. It lies between 45. 
33. and 47. 37. of N. lat. and between 22. 46. and 26. 3. of 
E. long. Its form is oblong: its territorial.extent about 
23,700 square miles; and its population is computed at some¬ 
what more than 1,600,000. 
Political Divisions. —Transylvania,like Hungary, isdivid- 
ed into civil and military : the former consists of three large dis¬ 
tricts or provinces, called from the earliest settlers, the lands 
of the Hungarians, the Saxons, and the Szeklers. The land 
of the Hungarians was divided into counties, and the others 
into districts, called in Latin Sedcs. Joseph II. abolished 
this distinction, and introduced that of the three circles of Hcr- 
manstadt, Fogaras, and Clausenburg. The old division has 
been restored since his death. The chief towns are— 
Inhabitants. 
Cronstadt. 24,000 
Clausenburg (the capital) . 20,000 
Hermanstadt . 16,000 
Maros Vasarhely .. 9500 
Vasarhely. 6000 
Udvarhely . 6000 
Schoesburg . 6000 
Face of the Country, Rivers, and Climate .—The Car¬ 
pathian mountains surround Transylvania on the east, the 
south, and partly on the north; and as lateral chains branch¬ 
ing 
