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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating. ] [ f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation. ] 1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [ Archaic ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove to heaven without a natural death. [ 1913 Webster ]

By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim. Heb. xi. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. “Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused.” Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To change into another form; to transform. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happy is your grace,
That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [ Obs. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. translation, L. translatio a transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. Tralation. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Tralatitious. ] Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. translativus that is to be transferred: cf. F. translatif. ] tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. [ R. ] Puttenham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. translator: cf. F. translateur. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Teleg.) A repeating instrument. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of a translator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to translate; transferring. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]