Transformism
Trans‐form″ism (?), n. [F. transformisme.] (Biol.) The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of...
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Transfreight
Trans‐freight″ (?), v. i. To transfrete. Waterhouse.
Transfretation
Trans′fre‐ta″tion (?), n. [L. transfretatio. See Transfrete.] The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea. Sir J. Davies.
Transfrete
Trans‐frete″ (?), v. i. [L. transfretare; trans across, over + fretum a strait: cf. OF. transfreter.] To pass over a strait or narrow sea. [Written also transfreight.] E. Hall.
Transfuge
{ Trans″fuge (?), Trans‐fu″gi‐tive (?), } n. [L. transfuga; trans across, over + fugere to flee.] One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apost...
Transfund
Trans‐fund″ (?), v. t. [L. transfundere; trans over, across + fundere to pour, pour out. See Found to cast, and cf. Transfuse.] To pour from one vessel into another; to transfus...
Transfuse
Trans‐fuse″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Transfused (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Transfusing.] [L. transfusus, p. p. of transfundere: cf. F. transfuser. See Transfund.] 1. To pour, as liquid,...
Transfusible
Trans‐fu″si‐ble (?), a. Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion.
Transfusion
Trans‐fu″sion (?), n. [L. transfusio: cf. F. transfusion.] 1. The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another. Howell.2. (Med.) The act or operatio...
Transfusive
Trans‐fu″sive (?), a. Tending to transfuse; having power to transfuse.
Transgress
Trans‐gress″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Transgressed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Transgressing.] [Cf. F. transgresser. See Transgression.] 1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass.Surpassing ...
Transgress (2)
Trans‐gress″, v. i. To offend against the law; to sin.Who transgressed in the thing accursed. I Chron. ii. 7.
Transgression
Trans‐gres″sion (?), n. [L. transgressio a going across, going over, transgression of the law, from transgredi, transgressus, to step across, go over; trans over, across + gradi...
Transgressional
Trans‐gres″sion‐al (?), a. Of pertaining to transgression; involving a transgression.
Transgressive
Trans‐gress″ive (?), a. [Cf. L. transgressivus passing over into another class. F. transgressif.] Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -
Transgressively
Trans‐gress″ive‐ly, adv.Adam, perhaps,... from the transgressive infirmities of himself, might have erred alone. Sir T. Browne.
Transgressor
Trans‐gress″or (?), n. [L.: cf. F. transgresseur.] One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; ...
Transhape
Tran‐shape″ (?), v. t. To transshape. J. Webster (1623).
Tranship
Tran‐ship″ (?), v. t. Same as Transship.
Transhipment
Tran‐ship″ment (?), n. Same as Transshipment.
Transhuman
Trans‐hu″man (?), a. [Pref. trans- + human.] More than human; superhuman.Words may not tell of that transhuman change. H. F. Cary.
Transhumanize
Trans‐hu″man‐ize (?), v. t. To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity.Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of p...
Transience
{ Tran″sience (?), Tran″sien‐cy (?), } n. The quality of being transient; transientness.
Transient
Tran″sient (?), a. [L. transiens, -entis, p. pr. of transire, transitum, to go or pass over. See Trance.] 1. Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over ...
Transient (2)
Tran″sient, n. That which remains but for a brief time. Glanvill.
Transilience
{ Tran‐sil″i‐ence (?), Tran‐sil″i‐en‐cy (?), } n. [L. transiliens, p. pr. of transilire to leap across or over; trans across, over + salire to leap.] A leap across or from one t...
Transire
‖Trans‐i″re (?), n. [L. transire to pass through or across, to pass.] (End. Law) A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.