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▪ I. traject, n.|ˈtrædʒɛkt|
[ad. L. trājectus a passing over, a place for crossing, f. trājicĕre, trāicĕre to throw across, f. trans across + jacĕre to throw. So F. trajet, traject (16th c.).]
1. A way or place of crossing over; esp. a place where boats cross a river, strait, or the like; a ferry. Less commonly, a route for crossing a tract of land.
a1552Leland Itin. (1907) I. 51 The next trajectus from Kingston to the shore of Humbre in Lincolnshir is about a 3 mile to a place caullid Golflete. Yet the communer traject is from Kingeston to Berton apon Humber. 1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 39 The Bosphori; the Trajects, or the narrow Seas, swam over by Oxen. 1798Pye Naucratia i. 57 Though his feet the traject often trace. 1810Scott Let. to Morrit 9 Aug., in Lockhart, He would not again put foot in a boat till he had discovered the shortest possible traject. 1904Sci. Amer. Supp. 5 Mar. 23553/3 As to the new Bagdad line, two different trajects were proposed.
2. The action or an act of crossing over water, land, a chasm, etc.; passage.
1774Pennant Tour Scot. in 1772 292 Land after a traject of four miles. 1828A. Clarke in Life xiii. (1840) 458 After a mile's traject [we] were in Lerwick. 1852Mundy Our Antipodes (1857) 30 We crossed the river by a punt running on a rope. The mode of traject is very inconvenient. 1875Wond. Phys. World i. iv. 129 The only means of traject across these crevasses. 1882E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 124 During the whole traject I met with no living things save an enormous black eagle.
b. The action of carrying or conveying across; transport; transference. rare.
18..Athenæum (Annandale), At the best, however, this traject was but that of the germ of life, which Sir W. Thomson, in a famous discourse, suggested had been carried to this earth from some other sphere by meteoric agency.
3. = trajectory n. 1. rare.
18..I. Taylor (Webster, 1864), The traject of comets.
▪ II. traject, v.|trəˈdʒɛkt|
[f. L. trāject-, ppl. stem of trājicĕre: see prec.]
†1. trans. To pass across, to cross (a river, sea, etc.). Also intr. Obs. rare.
1624Heywood Gunaik. i. 31 She..trajecting many seas..came at length into Egypt. Ibid. v. 231 The river Araxes, which he had late with a mightie host trajected. 1711in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 132 The Prince..would have..marched up by the river to Navan,..and there have trajected. Ibid. 169 That induced General de Ginckle..to traject the Shanon.
2. To carry or convey across or over; to transport.
†a. (something material). Obs.
1635Heywood Hierarch. viii. 510 He would traject them dry-foot through the seas. 1637― Dial. xvi. Wks. 1874 VI. 236 The ferriman, who from the rivers brim Trajected thee. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 30 Him [Christ] we must mastigate, and chew by faith: traject, and convey him into our hearts as nutriment. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 232 The notion..that the rivers of paradise were trajected out of the other hemisphere into this by subterraneous passages.
b. To transmit (light, shadow, or colour).
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. Pref., Trajecting these lines through the sieve of our Crebrosity. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 14 The shadow of a horse trajected against a wall. 1672Newton in Phil. Trans. VII. 5101 To this way of Compounding Whiteness may be referr'd that other, by Mixing light after it hath been trajected through transparently colour'd substances. 1704― Optics (1721) 57 A Prism, by which the trajected Light might be refracted either upwards or sideways.
c. To transmit (thought, words, etc.).
a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 169 By mutual Thoughts trajected either Soul Began each other sweetly to condole. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xiii. 324 She compared him to that dervis who possessed the power of trajecting his soul into the body of any individual that suited his purpose. 1895Macpherson Ch. & Priory Monymusk ii. 57 We can account for their name..being even trajected into a longer and more distant period during which they had no existence at all. |