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transumptive en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin transumptivus.

Meanings

1. Metaphorical.
   • fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive [translating Dante's Latin transumptivus], and withal definitive 1872, James Russell Lowell, The Shadow of Dante:
   • Meander is a riuer in Lycia, a prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor, famous for the ſinuoſitie & often turning thereof, riſing from certaine hills in Mæonia[;] heerevpon are intricate turnings by a tranſumptiue & metonimicall kind of ſpeech, called Meanders, for this Riuer did ſo ſtrangely path it ſelfe, that the foote ſeemed to touch the head. 1597, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second. Notes of the Chronicle Historie”, in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] Ling, […], →OCLC, folios 4, verso – 5, recto:

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transumpt · transume · transumption