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transmutual en · ADJ

Etymology

From trans- + mutual.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Reciprocal; commutual.
    • In this respect the present Dissenters have the advantage over their earlier predecessors; but on the other hand they utterly evacuate the Scriptural commands against schism; take away all sense and significance from the article respecting the Catholic Church; and in consequence degrade the discipline itself into mere club-regulations or the by-laws of different lodges; — that very discipline, the capability of exercising which in its own specific nature without superinduction of a destructive and transmutual opposite, is the fairest and firmest support of their cause. 1829, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, notes on Baxter's Life of Himself: