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transported, ppl. a.|trɑːnˈspɔətɪd, træn-| [f. transport v. + -ed1.] 1. Conveyed from one place to another.
1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. ii. x. 26 There is but little to be said..of Transported Earth,..it is a Novelty our Age has introduc'd in Gard'ning. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 193 At the base of such hollow ravines was seen a wide and deep mass of ruins, consisting of transported earth, gravel, rocks, and trees. b. Compulsorily carried to a distant country.
1728Gay Polly i. (1777) 18 Since he came over [to America] he married a transported slave. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 20 Those Grandees..in a few Minutes look'd like a Parcel of transported felons. 1890Daily News 18 Sept. 6/1 The transported of 1851 and of 1871 are looked upon as revolutionists who only got what they deserved. 2. ‘Carried away’ by excitement or vehement emotion; excited beyond self-control; enraptured.
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 247 Troublesome and transported subiects. 1685Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. v. 173 Like a passionate and transported thing, oppose it,..with such blind violence. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 29 The fondness of thy transported husband. 1874Motley Barneveld I. ii. 177 He had never seen a man so desperate, so transported. Hence tranˈsportedly adv., in a transported manner, in a transport; tranˈsportedness.
1652Loveday tr. Calprenede's Cassandra i. 56 [She] *transportedly cryed out [etc.]. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 27 Assemble here, you watry Race, Transportedly he cries. 1804J. Collins Scripscrap. 28 The thief a new Region transportedly hails.
a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 420 Titular respects which those..can weild without any such taint or suspicion of *transportedness. |