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transaction|trɑːnˈzækʃən, træn-, -nˈs-|
[ad. L. transactiōn-em, n. of action f. transigĕre: see prec. Cf. F. transaction (13th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
1. Roman and Civil Law. The adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual concession; compromise; hence gen. an arrangement, an agreement, a covenant. Now Hist. exc. as in 3 c.
c1460Oseney Reg. 84 A stryfe..i-stered bytwene thabbot of Eynesham and N. clerke of Karsynton and thabbot of Oseney... In this maner in owr presence, be transaction, to be decidid. 1611Cotgr., Transaction, a transaction, accord, agreement, attonement. 1615in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1899) I. 167 [The Spice Trade] is appropriated to the Hollanders as well by right of Conquest as by Transaction. 1631Massinger Emperor East iii. iv, In this transaction, Drawn in express and formal terms, I have Given and consigned into your hands..my dear Eudocia! 1786A. Gib Sacr. Contempl. i. 31 A covenant is a transaction between two parties.
2. The action of transacting or fact of being transacted; the carrying on or completion of an action or course of action; † the accomplishment of a result (obs.).
1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 286 His carriadge in the transaction of the peace betweene the people of these countryes and Cromwell. 1658Phillips, Transaction, a finishing, or dispatching any businesse. 1782F. Burney Cecilia iii. v, After the transaction of this affair. 1844L. Woods Ch. Govt. ii. 44 Any direction of Christ or..of his apostles respecting the transaction of business in the church.
3. That which is or has been transacted; an affair in course of settlement or already settled; a piece of business; in pl. doings, proceedings, dealings. Also fig.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §18 Discoursing of the Court of France, and the transactions there. a1656Bp. Hall Serm. 2 Pet. i. 10 Wks. 1837 V. 578 In our transactions with men, when we have an honest man's word for a bargain, we think it safe. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World Contents 1 Our most remarkable transactions there. 1755Doddridge Hymn, ‘O happy day, that fixed my choice’ iii, 'Tis done; the great transaction's done; I am my Lord's, and He is mine. 1834L. Ritchie Wand. by Seine 192 Every marriage, every baptism, every fête, is a public transaction. 1863M. Howitt F. Bremer's Greece I. i. 19 Every remarkable transaction obtained its stone-tablet on the Acropolis.
†b. A physical operation, action, or process.
1662South Serm. (1697) I. 49 There is not the least transaction of sense and motion in the whole man. 1794J. Hutton Philos. Light 261 Inertia is the law of action and passion by which motion is translated from one body to another..and, in this transaction, the rule observed is the actual weight of the bodies.
c. Theol. In reference to the Atonement, ‘transaction’ has been used in senses ranging from 1 to 3. (In sense 1 chiefly in deprecation.)
1861Abp. Thomson Aids to Faith viii. 351 There is the danger lest the Atonement degenerate into a transaction between a righteous Father on the one side, and a loving Saviour on the other, because in the human transaction from which the analogy is drawn two distinct parties are concerned. 1876Mozley Serm. viii. (1879) 169 Now I have nothing to do here with the mystery of this transaction; the question is the morality of it—how the act of one person can alter God's regards toward another. 1901Moberly Atonement & Personality vii. 138 They seem to make atonement a transaction, historical, final, consummated long ago:—a transaction (I do not ask at this moment between whom; but..) far anterior to, and wholly outside of, the reality of ourselves. 1901Sanday Life Christ in rec. Res. v. ix. (1907) 249 So much at least seems to follow.., that the Scriptures do recognize a mysterious something which, in our imperfect human language, may be described as a ‘transaction’.
†4. The action of passing or making over a thing from one person, thing, or state to another; transference. Obs.
a1608Sir F. Vere Comm. 69 Her Majesty being in hand with the States to make a transaction from the old treaty to the new. 1613–18Daniel Hist. Eng. (1621) 16 Putting on each others apparel and armes..as if they made transaction of their persons each to other. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. ii. 20 The transaction of these Provinces which the King of Spaine made as a dowry to the Archduke Albertus. 1691Sir T. P. Blount Ess. v. 127 Did not Commerce..by a continual Motion and Transaction render it [the world] wholesome, and profitable.
†5. The action of dealing with or handling a subject; treatment. Cf. transact v. 3. Obs. rare.
1646Jer. Taylor Apol. Liturgy Pref. §26 Those..Epistles and Gospels before the Communion..are Scriptures of the choicest, and most profitable transaction.
6. pl. The record of its proceedings published by a learned society. Rarely in sing. Cf. proceeding vbl. n. 2 c.
1665(title) Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable Parts of the World. Ibid. I. 75 In the first papers of these Transactions. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 14 They all..Agreed to draw up th' Instrument, And..To print it in the next Transaction. 1805Phil. Trans. XCV. p. iii, To reconsider the papers read before them, and select..such as they should judge most proper for publication in the future Transactions. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile Pref. 8 The pages of scientific journals and the transactions of learned societies. |