Dictionary entry

Transport

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Trans‐port″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Transported; p. pr. & vb. n.Transporting.] [F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor.] 1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt.

2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

laugh as if transported with some fit

Of passion. Milton.

We shall then be transported with a nobler... wonder. South.