Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 63

Transformism (n.) The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis.

Transfreight (v. i.) To transfrete.

Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.

Transfuge (n.) Alt. of Transfugitive

Transfugitive (n.) One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate.

Transfund (v. t.) To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse.

Transfused (imp. & p. p.) of Transfuse

Transfusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transfuse

Transfuse (v. t.) To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.

Transfuse (v. t.) To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man or animal to those of another.

Transfuse (v. t.) To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to transfuse a love of letters.

Transfusible (a.) Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion.

Transfusion (n.) The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.

Transfusion (n.) The act or operation of transferring the blood of one man or animal into the vascular system of another; also, the introduction of any fluid into the blood vessels, or into a cavity of the body from which it can readily be adsorbed into the vessels; intrafusion; as, the peritoneal transfusion of milk.

Transfusive (a.) Tending to transfuse; having power to transfuse.

Transgressed (imp. & p. p.) of Transgress

Transgressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transgress

Transgress (v. t.) To pass over or beyond; to surpass.

Transgress (v. t.) Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.

Transgress (v. t.) To offend against; to vex.

Transgress (v. i.) To offend against the law; to sin.

Transgression (n.) The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin.

Transgressional (a.) Of pertaining to transgression; involving a transgression.

Transgressive (a.) Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -

Transgressor (n.) One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.

Transhape (v. t.) To transshape.

Tranship (v. t.) Same as Transship.

Transhipment (n.) Same as Transshipment.

Transhuman (a.) More than human; superhuman.

Transhumanize (v. t.) To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity.

Transience (n.) Alt. of Transiency

Transiency (n.) The quality of being transient; transientness.

Transient (a.) Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure.

Transient (a.) Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.

Transient (a.) Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders.

Transient (n.) That which remains but for a brief time.

Transilience (n.) Alt. of Transiliency

Transiliency (n.) A leap across or from one thing to another.

Transire (n.) A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.

Transit (n.) The act of passing; passage through or over.

Transit (n.) The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

Transit (n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.

Transit (n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.

Transit (n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.

Transit (n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.

Transit (v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

Transition (n.) Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

Transition (n.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.

Transition (n.) A passing from one subject to another.

Transition (n.) Change from one form to another.

Transitional (a.) Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.

Transitionary (a.) Transitional.

Transitive (a.) Having the power of making a transit, or passage.

Transitive (a.) Effected by transference of signification.

Transitive (a.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book.

Transitorily (adv.) In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.

Transitoriness (n.) The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure.

Transitory (a.) Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.

Translatable (a.) Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.

Translated (imp. & p. p.) of Translate

Translating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Translate

Translate (v. t.) To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

Translate (v. t.) To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.

Translate (v. t.) To remove to heaven without a natural death.

Translate (v. t.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.

Translate (v. t.) To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words.

Translate (v. t.) To change into another form; to transform.

Translate (v. t.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.

Translate (v. t.) To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.

Translate (v. i.) To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

Translation (n.) The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.

Translation (n.) The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

Translation (n.) That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

Translation (n.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.

Translation (n.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.

Translation (n.) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.

Translatitious (a.) Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic.

Translative (a.) tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense.

Translator (n.) One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.

Translator (n.) A repeating instrument.

Translatorship (n.) The office or dignity of a translator.

Translatory (a.) Serving to translate; transferring.

Translatress (n.) A woman who translates.

Translavation (n.) A laving or lading from one vessel to another.

Transliterate (v. t.) To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters.

Transliteration (n.) The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.

Translocation (n.) removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another.

Translucence (n.) Alt. of Translucency

Translucency (n.) The quality or state of being translucent; clearness; partial transparency.

Translucent (a.) Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.

Translucent (a.) Transparent; clear.

Translucently (adv.) In a translucent manner.

Translucid (a.) Translucent.

Translunary (a.) Being or lying beyond the moon; hence, ethereal; -- opposed to sublunary.

Transmarine (a.) Lying or being beyond the sea.

Transmeable (a.) Alt. of Transmeatable

Transmeatable (a.) Capable of being passed over or traversed; passable.

Transmeate (v. t.) To pass over or beyond.

Transmeation (n.) The act of transmeating; a passing through or beyond.

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