translate

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 ]