Webster's Dictionary 1828

1756

TRANQUILLY

TRAN'QUILLY, adverb Quietly; peacefully.

1757

TRANQUILNESS

TRAN'QUILNESS, noun Quietness; peacefulness.

1758

TRANSACT

TRANSACT', verb transitive [Latin transactus, transigo; trans and ago; to act or drive through.] To do; to perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business. We transact b...

1759

TRANSACTED

TRANSACT'ED, participle passive Done; performed; managed.

1760

TRANSACTING

TRANSACT'ING, participle present tense Managing; performing.

1761

TRANSACTION

TRANSAC'TION, noun The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair.1. That which is done; an affair. We are not to expect in history a minute detail of every t...

1762

TRANSACTOR

TRANSACT'OR, noun One who performs or conducts any business.

1763

TRANSALPINE

TRANSAL'PINE, adjective [Latin trans, beyond, and Alpine, of the Alps.]Lying or being beyond the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west of the Alps; as transalpin...

1764

TRANSANIMATE

TRANSAN'IMATE, verb transitive [trans and animate.] To animate by the conveyance of a soul to another body.

1765

TRANSANIMATION

TRANSANIMA'TION, noun [Latin trans and anima.] Conveyance of the soul from one body to another; transmigration. [The latter is the word generally used.]

1766

TRANSATLANTIC

TRANSATLAN'TIC, adjective [Latin trans, beyond, and Atlantic.] Lying or being beyond the Atlantic. When used by a person in Europe or Africa, transatlantic signifies being in Am...

1767

TRANSCEND

TRANSCEND', verb transitive [Latin transcendo; trans and scando, to climb.]1. To rise above; to surmount; as lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.2. To pa...

1768

TRANSCENDED

TRANSCEND'ED, participle passive Overpassed; surpassed; exceeded.

1769

TRANSCENDENCE

TRANSCEND'ENCETRANSCEND'ENCY, noun Superior excellence; supereminence.1. Elevation above truth; exaggeration.

1770

TRANSCENDENCY

TRANSCEND'ENCY, n. Superior excellence; supereminence.1. Elevation above truth; exaggeration.

1771

TRANSCENDENT

TRANSCEND'ENT, adjective [Latin transcendens.] Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as transcendent worth; transcendent valor.Cloth'd with trans...

1772

TRANSCENDENTAL

TRANSCENDENT'AL, adjective Supereminent; surpassing others; as transcendental being or qualities.Transcendental quantities, among geometricians, are indeterminate ones, or such ...

1773

TRANSCENDENTLY

TRANSCEND'ENTLY, adverb Very excellently; supereminently; by way of eminence.The law of christianity is eminently and transcendently called the word of truth.

1774

TRANSCOLATE

TRANS'COLATE, verb transitive [Latin trans and colo, to strain.]To strain; to cause to pass through a sieve or colander.

1775

TRANSCRIBE

TRANSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin transcribo; trans, over, and scribo, to write.] To copy; to write over again or in the same words; to write a copy of any thing; as, to trans...

1776

TRANSCRIBED

TRANSCRI'BED, participle passive Copied.

1777

TRANSCRIBER

TRANSCRI'BER, noun A copier; one who writes from a copy.

1778

TRANSCRIBING

TRANSCRI'BING, participle present tense Writing from a copy; writing copy.

1779

TRANSCRIPT

TRAN'SCRIPT, noun [Latin transcriptum.] A copy; a writing made from and according to an original; a writing or composition consisting of the same words with the original.The dec...

1780

TRANSCRIPTION

TRANSCRIP'TION, noun The act of copying. Corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

1781

TRANSCRIPTIVELY

TRANSCRIPT'IVELY, adverb In manner of a copy.

1782

TRANSCUR

TRANSCUR', verb intransitive [Latin transcurro; trans and curro, to run.]run or rove to and fro. [Little used.]