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▪ I. transact, n. Now dial.|trɑːnˈzækt, træn-, -nˈs-|
Also 9 Sc. -ack, -ac'.
[f. transact v., or ad. L. transactum a thing completed, a transaction.]
A transaction.
1659New Lords Winding-Sheet 4 The Transacts of Colonel John Barkstead hath been taken into consideration. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xli, We sit owre lang gin ance we begin an' clatter aboot our nain transacks. 1887D. Grant Sc. Stories (1888) 62 The followin' conversation wud tak' place in the coorse o' transac'.
▪ II. transact, v.|trɑːnˈzækt, træn-, -nˈs-|
[f. L. transact-, ppl. stem of transigĕre to drive through, accomplish, f. trans- + agĕre to drive, do, act.]
1. a. intr. To carry through negotiations; to have dealings, do business; to treat; also, to manage or settle affairs. Now rare.
1584–5Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 723 Quha..transactit and agreit with Mr. Patrik Gaittis..and be vertew thairof hes obtenit collatioun. 1623Bingham Xenophon 79 The Trapezuntines..gaue the Grecians gifts of hospitalitie... They transacted likewise for the next neighbour Colchans. 1658–9in Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 13 The last Parliament would never transact with them as Lords. We were turned out for it. 1683Cave Ecclesiastici, Athanasius 109 They transact Synodically in separate Assemblies. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 74 ⁋1 That..we may secure the love of those with whom we transact. 1872Symonds Introd. Stud. Dante 266 Dante denounced the enemies of his country in his Comedy, and refused to transact with them.
b. fig. (Usually dyslogistic.) To have to do, to compromise.
1888Athenæum 24 Nov. 693/1 The plan..of ‘transacting’ with political convictions by acquiescence in, if not actually serving, governments the legitimacy of which the politician in his heart..denies. 1890Sat. Rev. 4 Jan. 15/2 In his criticism..he seems to us a little to ‘transact’ with cant, or even not quite to have cleared his own mind of it. Ibid. 15 Nov. 571/1 He does not make the slightest attempt to ‘transact’ with naturalism or explain away the super⁓natural.
2. trans. To carry through, perform (an action, etc.); to manage (an affair); now esp. to carry on, conduct, do (business).
1635Heylin Sabbath ii. (1636) 190 Provided..that the change be so transacted, that it produce no scandall or confusion in the Church of God. 1649Cromwell Let. Nov., Whilst these things have been thus transacting [= being transacted] here. 1709Steele Tatler No. 94 ⁋1 In the Country wherein the Circumstances were transacted. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 100 ⁋1 Ignorance of what is transacting among the polite part of Mankind. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. ix. (1869) I. 99 A country fully stocked in proportion to all the business it had to transact. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. v. 211 Affairs of no trivial importance were transacting in the Council. 1883R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 122 With so strong a helper, the business was speedily transacted. 1950R. Macaulay World my Wilderness xxii. 158 What careful, crafty affairs had they transacted in the Hall of the Haberdashers? 1970D. Jacobson Rape of Tamar ii. 14 Gathering together around the king, while he transacts the business of the state.
3. To deal in or with; to traffic in, negotiate about; to handle, treat; to discuss. arch.
1654Fuller Ephemeris Parl. (title-p.), Containing the severall Speeches, Cases, and Arguments of Law transacted between his Majesty and both Houses. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull ii. iv, To have these usurers transact my debts at coffee-houses, and ale-houses; as if I were going to break up shop. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 406 Great sums are transacted. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxvi, While these delicacies were being transacted below.
†4. To carry, hand, or take over; to transfer.[Cf. med.L. transactāre = transferre (1242 in Du Cange).] 1621H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lords (Camden) 71 The cause to be brought before us by habeas corpus cum causa, or the case to be transacted to the Kinge, and he to determyne yt. 1653Manton Exp. James i. 13 God's transacting our sin upon Christ is most satisfying to the Spirit. 1889Science 29 Nov. 374 A paper..from which the following passages are transacted.
Hence tranˈsacted ppl. a., tranˈsacting vbl. n.
1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 20 In all their Transacting together. 1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) App. 286 For transacted Processes and Decreets, the one Half of what they would have amounted to if extracted. 1854J. Guthrie Life J. Arminius Pref. 2 There are other..transacted lives, which not to know..is a loss to the world. 1876H. K. Wood Highw. Salvation v. 69 There is the direct and personal transacting of a soul with the Saviour.
▪ III. tranˈsact, ppl. a. rare—1.
[ad. L. transact-us, pa. pple. of transigĕre: see transact v.]
Transacted. (Const. as pa. pple.)
1854S. Dobell Balder xxviii, Night by night, when..that mysterious sorrow is transact Unseen, and there is weeping in the air. |