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transmove en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor. Middle English moven English move English transmove From trans- + move.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, poetic) To move or change from one state into another; to transform.
   • Time's of the essence, get a move / on, to this state of bliss - transmove. 2024 July 7, Mary Mallia, A Return to the Heart of Love A Collection of Poems, #1, Mary Mallia, →ISBN:
   • The emphasis throughout these ekphrastic stanzas on a god's transforming or "transmoving" himself into a bestial form in order to embrace a beloved mortal woman might usefully be glossed by Ficino's central statement about the conditions that create melancholic love : […] 2007 January 3, Marion Wells, The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance, page 249:
   • That to a centaure did himselfe transmove 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • The spring-time sky above their head, / Whose island clouds the breezes led / To far-off, western, boundless plain / And there transmoved to needed rain; […] 1887(?), "Verses commemorating the Death of Marquette, May 18, 1675", in United States Catholic Historical Magazine, page 413

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