Trans*late , v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in
translation.
Trans*late" (?), 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.
In the chapel
of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome.
Evelyn.
2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to
transfer; hence, to remove as
by death.
3. To remove to heaven without a natural death.
By
faith Enoch was
translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim.
Heb. xi. 5.
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.
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.
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.
6. To change into another form; to transform.
Happy is your grace,
That can translatethe stubbornness
of fortune
Into so quiet
and so sweet a style.
Shak.
7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
8. To cause to lose
senses or recollection;
to entrance. [Obs.]
J. Fletcher.
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