first. the problem of the section of an angle, or the transmutation of sexes was only so in opinion, and invention of any number of mean proportionals, that those transfeminated persons were really men at would be of a certain finite degree. Whereas Browne's Vulgar Errours. the different degrees of algebraical equations, TRANSFER, v. a. Fr. transferer; Lat. transand therefore the problem, understood in gene- fero. To convey; make over from one to ral of any number of parts of an angle, or mean another; remove; transport; taking both to proportionals, is of an indefinite degree, and and upon. transcends all algebraical equations. TRANS'COLATE, v. a. Latin trans and colo. 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. TRANSCRIBE', v. a. Fr. transcrire ; sponding. The most rigid exactors of mere outward purity do but transcribe the folly of him who pumps the leak. Decay of Piety. The corruptions that have crept into it by many transcriptions was the cause of so great difference. Brerewood. He was the original of all those inventions, from which others did but transcribe copies. Clarendon. The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian; and the Roman of the Grecian. Glanville. Not a few, transcriptively subscribing their names to other men's endeavours, transcribe all they have written. Browne. The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript, not an original. South's Sermons. In a great whale, the sense and the affections of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion throughout the whole. Id. Natural History. I have briefly run over transcursions, as if my pen had been posting with them. Milton. Wotton's Life of Buckingham. TRANSE, n. s. Fr. transe. See TRANCE. A temporary absence of the soul; an ecstacy. Abstract as in a transe, methought I saw, Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape Still glorious before whom awake I stood. TRANSELEMENTATION, n. s. Trans and element. Change of one element into another. Rain we allow; but if they suppose any other transelementation, it neither agrees with Moses's philosophy nor St. Peter's. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. TRANSEX'ION, n. s. Lat. trans and serus. Change from one sex to another. It much impeacheth the iterated transerion of hares, if that be true which some physicians affirm, that He that transfers the laws of the Lacedemonians to the people of Athens, should find a great absurdity and inconvenience. Spenser's State of Ireland." Was 't not enough you took my crown away, But cruelly you must my love betray? I was well pleased to have transferred my right, And better changed your claim of lawless might. Dryden. This was one perverse effect of their sitting at ease under their vines and fig-trees, that they forgot from whence that ease came, and transferred all the honour of it upon themselves. Atterbury's Sermons. By reading we learn not only the actions and the sentiments of distant nations, but transfer to ourselves the knowledge and improvements of the most learned men. Watts. In kinds where the discrimination of sexes is obscure, these transformations are more common, and in some without commixture; as in caterpillars or silkworms, wherein there is a visible and triple transfiguration. Browne's Vulgar Errours. I am the more zealous to transfigure your love into devotion, because I have observed your passion to have been extremely impatient of confinement. Dryden's Homer. Fenton. Till fate shall with a single dart Transfix the pair it cannot part. TRANSFORM', v. a. & v. n. Į Fr. transforv. n. } TRANSFORMATION, n. s. mer; Latin trans and forma. To inetamorphose; change with regard to external form: the noun substantive corresponding. She demanded of him, whether the goddess of those woods had such a power to transform every body. Sidney. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see Of Hamlet's transformation; so I call it, As is the fable of the lady fair, TRANSFORMATION, in geometry, is the changing or reducing of a figure, or of a body, into another of the same area, or of the same solidity, but of a different form. As to transform or reduce a triangle to a square, or a pyramid to a parallelopipedon. TRANSFORMATION OF EQUATIONS, in algebra, is the changing equations into others of a different form, but of equal value. This operation is often necessary to prepare equations for a more easy solution. TRANSFRETAʼTION, n. s. Lat. trans and fretum. Passage over the sea. Since the last transfretation of king Richard the Second, the crown of England never sent over numbers of men sufficient to defend the small territory. Davies on Ireland. TRANSFUSE', v. a. Į Lat. transfusus. To TRANSFUSION, n. s. pour out of one into another: the noun substantive corresponding. Poesy is of so subtile a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will all evaporate; and, if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuuin. Denham. The crooked part of the pipe was placed in a box, to prevent the loss of the quicksilver that might fall aside in the transfusion from the vessel into the pipe. Boyle. Something must be lost in all transfusion, that is, in all translations, but the sense will remain. TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD, an operation by which the blood of one animal was conveyed into the veins of another, and by which it was some time ago imagined the age of animals would be renewed, and immortality, or the next thing to it, conferred on those who had undergone it. In the Philosophical Transactions we have an account of the success of various trans fusions practised at London, Paris, Italy, &c. Sir Edmund King transfused forty-nine ounces of blood out of a calf into a sheep; the sheep, after the operation, appearing as well and as strong as before. M. Denis transfused the blood of three calves into three dogs, which all continued brisk, and eat as well as before. The same person transfused the blood of four wethers into a horse twenty-six years old, which thence received much strength, and a more than ordinary appetite. Soon after this operation was introduced at Paris, viz. in 1667 and 1668, M. Denis performed it on five human subjects, two of whom recovered of disorders under which they labored; one being in perfect health, suffered no inconvenience from it; and two persons who were ill, and submitted to the operation, died; in consequence of which the magistrates issued a sentence, prohibiting the transfusion on human Hunter made many ingenious experiments to bodies under pain of imprisonment. Mr. John determine the effects of transfusing blood, some of which are sufficient to attract attention. But whether such experiments can ever be made with safety on the human body is a point not easily determined. They might be allowed in desperate cases, proceeding from a corruption of the blood, from poison, &c., as in hydrophobia. TRANSGRESS', v. a. & v. n.“ Fr. transTRANSGRESSION, n. s. TRANSORESSIVE, adj TRANSGRESS'or. gresser; Lat. transgressus. To pass over; pass beyond; violate: offend by violating a law: the adjective and noun substantives corresponding. Achan transgressed in the thing accursed. 1 Chron. ii. 7. He upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our Wisdom. education. ought to be no accusation. TRAN'SIENT, adj. Lat. transiens. Soon past; short; momentary; not lasting: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding. It were to be wished that all words of this sort, as they resemble the wind in fury and impetuousness, so they might do also in transientness and sudden expiration. Decay of Piety. Measured this transient worid, the race of time, How soon hath thy prediction, seer blest! Till time stands fixed. Milton. He that rides post through a country, may, from the transient view, tell how in general the parts lie. Love, hitherto a transient guest, Ne'er held possession in his breast. TRANSILIENCE, n. s. Į TRANSILIENCY. thing. Locke. Swift. transilio Latin Leap from thing to By unadvised transiliency leaping from the effect to its remotest cause, we observe not the connection of more immediate causalities. Glanville's Scepsis. TRANSIT OF THE PLANETS. See ASTRONOMY. TRANSITION, n. s. Lat. transitio. Removal; passage from one to another. Heat and cold have a virtual transition without communication of substance, but moisture not. Bacon's Natural History. He with transition sweet new speech resumes. Milton. As for the mutation of sexes, and transition into one another, we cannot deny it in hares, it being observable in man. Browne's Vulgar Errours. Covetousness was none of his faults, but described as a veil over the true meaning of the poet, which was to satirize his prodigality and voluptuousness, to which he makes a transition. Dryden. TRANSITIVE, adj. Lat. transitivus. Having the power of passing. One cause of cold is the contact of cold bodies; for cold is active and transitive into bodies adjacent, Bacon's Natural History. as well as heat. A verb transitive is that which signifies an action, conceived as having an effect upon some object; as ferio terram, I strike the earth. Clarke's Latin Grammar. TRANSLATE', v. a. & v. n. Old French TRANSLATION, N.S. translater; Lat. TRANSLATOR, translatus. To TRANSLATORY, adj. transport; move; transfer from one to another; change; interpret or render in another language; explain: a translation follows all these senses: a translator is one who turns any thing into another language: translatory is transferring. The king, the next time the bishop of London came to him, entertained him with this compellation, My lord's grace of Canterbury, you are very welcome; and gave order for all the necessary forms for the translation. Clarendon. As there are apoplexies from inveterate gouts, the regimen must be to translate the morbifick matter upon the extremities of the body. Arbuthnot. Perverse mankind! whose wills, created free, Charge all their woes on absolute decree; All to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscalled the crimes of fate. Pope. No translation our own country ever yet produced, hath come up to that of the Old and New Testament; and I am persuaded that the translators of the Bible were masters of an English stile much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings, the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole. Swift. To go to heaven is to be transiated to that kingdom you have longed for; to enjoy the glories of eternity. Wake. TRANSLATION of a book out of one language into another. The principles of translation have been clearly and accurately laid down by Dr. Campbell in his invaluable Preliminary Dissertations to his excellent translations of the gospels. The fundamental rules which he establishes are three 1. That the translation should give a complete transcript of the ideas of the original. 2. That the style and manner of the original should be preserved in the translation. 3. That the translation should have all the ease of original composition. The rules deducible from these general laws are explained and illustrated with much judgment and taste, in a late Essay on the Principles of Translation, by Mr. Tytler. TRANSLOCATION, n. s. Latin trans and locus. Removal 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. TRANSLUCENT, adj. ? TRANSLUCID. Woodward. Latin trans and Slucens, or lucidus. Transparent; diaphanous; clear; giving a`pas I will translate the kingdom from the house of sage to the light. Saul, and set up the throne of David. 2 Sam. iii. 10. By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death. Hebrews xi. 5. Since our father is translated unto the gods, our will is, that they that are in our realm live quietly. 2 Mac. xi. 23. Of translations, the better I acknowledge that which cometh nearer to the very letter of the very Hooker. original verity. Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Shakspeare. As You Like It. If part of the people be somewhat in the election, you cannot make them nulls or cyphers in the privation or translation. Bacon's War with Spain. VOL. XXII. In anger the spirits ascend and wax eager; which is seen in the eyes, because they are translucid. Wherever fountain or fresh current flowed Against the eastern ray, translucent, pure, With touch ætherial of heaven's fiery rod, I drank. Bacon. Milton. The golden ewer a maid obsequious brings, Replenished from the cool translucent springs. Pope's Odyssey. TRANSMARINE', adj. Latin transmarinus. Lying on the other side of the sea; found beyond sea. She might have made herself mistress of Timaurania, her next transmarine neighbour. Howel's Vocal Forest. N TRANSMEW', v. a. Latin transmuto; Fr. transmuer. To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose; to change. Obsolete. 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. Latin transmigrans. Passing into another coun TRANS'MIGRANT, adj. TRANS MIGRATE, v. n. TRANSMIGRATION, n. s. try or state to pass from one country to another: the noun substantive corresponding. Besides an union in sovereignty, or a conjunction Their souls may transmigrate into each other. Easing their passage hence, for intercourse If Pythagoras's transanimation were true, that the souls of men transmigrate into species answering their former natures, some men must live over many Browne's Vulgar Errours. serpents. Regard Dryden. The port of Luna, says our learned bard; TRANSMIGRATION is particularly used for the passage of the soul out of one body into another. See METEMPSYCHOSIS, MYTHOLOGY, and PYTHA TRANSMUTATION OF METALS, in alchemy, denotes the act of changing imperfect metals into gold or silver. This is also called the grand operation; and they say it is to be effected by the philosopher's stone. Alchemists suppose that all metals are composed of the same principles; and that the imperfect metals do not differ from gold and silver, but because their principles are not so well combined, or because they contain heterogeneous matters. We have then only these two faults to remedy, which, as they say, may be done by proper coction, and by separating the pure from the impure. But we would advise those making such experiments to determine previously, if metals have each a peculiar earth, or only one common to them all. TRANSMIT, v. a. Lat. transmitto; Fr. In the second place, if it should be demonstrated TRANSMISSIVE, adj. transmettre. To send that the earthy principle is the same in all TRANSMITTAL, N. S. from one person or metals, and if that be demonstrated as clearly as place to another: the derivatives both corre- the identity of the inflammable principle in spond. metals, they must then determine whether these By means of writing, former ages transmit the two be the only principles in metals, whether memorials of ancient times and things to posterity. the mercurial principle exists, and whether it be Hale. essential to all metals or to some only, and what is the proportion of these two or three principles in the several metallic substances. These facts must be ascertained previous to asserting the possibility of transmutation. GORAS. If there were any such notable transmission of a colony hither out of Spain, the very chronicles of Spain would not have omitted so memorable a thing. Spenser on Ireland. 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. Languages of countries are lost by transmission of colonies of a different language. Hale's Origin of Mankind. The uvea has a musculous power, and can dilate and contract that round hole in it called the pupil, for the better moderating the transmission of light. More. He sent orders to his friend in Spain to sell his estate, and transmit the money to him. Addison. Prior. And still the sire inculcates to his son Transmissive lessons of the king's renown. TRANSMUTE', v. n. Lat. transmuto; TRANSMUTABLE, adj. Fr. transmuer. Το TRANSMUTATION, n. s. S change from one nature or substance to another: the derivatives corresponding. Am not I old Sly's son, by birth a pedlar, by edu. cation a card-maker, by transmutation a bear herd? Shakspeare. Suidas thinks that by the golden fleece was meant a golden book of parchment, which is of sheep's skin, TRANSOM, among builders, denotes the piece that is framed across a double light window. TRANSOMS, in a ship, certain beams or timbers extended across the sternpost of a ship, to fortify her afterpart, and give it the figure most suitable to the service for which she is calculated. See SHIP-BUILDING. TRANSPARENT, adj. Į Fr. transparent ; TRANSPARENCY, n. s. Lat. trans and appareo. Pervious to the light; clear; pellucid: the noun substantive corresponds. 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. pass, Fashions and works, and wholly doth transpierce Raleigh. TRANSPIRATION, n. s. Į Fr. transpiraTRANSPIRE', v. n. $ tion. Emission in vapor or otherwise to be emitted; to escape from secrecy into notice. That a bullet dipped in oil, by preventing the transpiration of air, will carry farther, and pierce deeper, my experience cannot discern. Browne's Vulgar Errours. The nuts fresh got are full of a soft pulpy matter, which in time transpires and passes through the shell. Woodward. The transpiration of the obstructed fluids is imagined to be one of the ways that an inflammation is emoved. Sharp. TRANSPLACE', v. a. Trans and place. To remove; put into a new place. It was transplaced from the left side of the Vatican unto a more eminent place. Wilkins's Mathematical Magick. TRANSPLANT', v. a. 1 Lat. trans and TRANSPLANTATION, n. s. planto; Fr. transplanter. To remove and plant, or settle, in a new place: the noun substantive corresponding. If any transplant themselves into plantations abroad, who are schismaticks or outlaws, such are not fit to lay the foundation of a new colony. Bacon's Advice to Villiers. He prospered at the rate of his own wishes, being transplanted out of his cold barren diocese of Saint David's into a warmer climate. Clarendon. Of light the greater part he took Transplanted from her cloudy shrine, and placed In the sun's orb. The noblest fruits transplanted in our isle, With early hope and fragrant blossoms smile. Salopian acres flourish with a growth Peculiar, stiled the Ottley; be thou first This apple to transplant. Milton. Roscommon. Phillips. This appears a replication to what Menelaus had offered concerning the transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta. Broome. What noise have we had for some years about transplantation of diseases, and transfusion of blood! 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. Id. A truly pious mind receives a temporal blessing with gratitude, a spiritual one with ecstacy and transport. South. Some spoke of the men of war only, and others added the transports. Arbuthnot on Coins. We return after being transported, and are ten times greater rogues than before. Swift. TRANSPOSE', v. a. Į Fr. transposer; Lat. TRANSPOSITION, n. s. transpositum. To put place: the noun substantive corresponding. each in the place of other; hence put out of That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose; Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Shakspeare. The letters of Elizabetha regina transposed thus, Angliæ Hera, beasti, signify, O England's sovereign! thou hast made us happy. Camden's Remains. Transpose the propositions, making the medius terminus the predicate of the first, and the subject of the second. Locke. TRANSPOSITION, in grammar, a disturbing or dislocating the words of a sentence, or a changing their natural order of construction, to please the ear by rendering the contexture more smooth, easy, and harmonious. TRANSSHAPE', v. a. Trans and shape. To transform; to bring into another shape. 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. Much Ado About Nothing. TRANS-TIBERINA, a part of the city of Rome, on the farther side of the Tiber. Mount Vatican was in that part of the city.-Mart. 1. ep. 109. TRANSUBSTANTIATE, v. a. Į Fr. tranTRANSUBSTANTIATION, n. s. substantier. To change to another substance: the act of doing so; the dogma of the church of Rome, or a change of this kind after the consecration of the eucharist. O self-traitor, I do bring Donne. |