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transume, v. Obs. exc. Hist.|trɑːnˈsjuːm, træn-|
Also 5–7 transsume.
[ad. (post-Aug.) L. tran(s)sūmĕre, f. trans across, over + sūmĕre to take, seize; in med.L. transsumĕre, transsumptāre, to transcribe, make a copy of. Cf. OF. transumer (1482 in Godef.).]
1. trans. To make an official copy of a (legal) document; = exemplify 7. Obs. exc. Hist.
1482in Rymer Foedera (1711) XII. 165/1 We have Decerned..the said Letters to be Exemplified and Transsumed. 1533St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 413 That the same Acte may be impressed, transumed, and set up on every churche dore. 1541Records of Elgin (1903) I. 64 Ane transump and instrument transsumit out of Master Androu Cheves prothogall buik. 1545Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 10 The autentik copy of the said letter of merk autentikly transumyt in the toun of Arkis under the sele of the tabellioun and keparis of the sele of the vecunty of Arkis. 1598D. Wedderburn Compt Bk. (S.H.S.) 157 David Ostlar..restis awin me a Crown for transuming Andro Ostlaris barnis Seasingis. 1693,1765–8[see transumpt n.]. 1881S. R. Macphail Relig. Ho. Pluscardyn xi. 107 The original bull..having been produced in court to be transumed.
†2. To take from one to another, take over; to transfer, transport. Obs.
1483Caxton Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxix. 76 This word statua, whiche that we transumen in to Englysshe, that is to mene an Image. 1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 184 Termes properly belonging to time, are yet sometimes transsumed to denote what is pertinent to eternity. 1630Lord Relig. Persees 17 The Angell..bade him close his eyes, and he would transume and rappe him up into that place of glory. 1656[? J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 382 Physicians affirm..the Seed of the Man disappears, being transum'd into the Flesh of the Woman.
†3. To transmute, change, convert (into something else).
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 155 The bread and wine are transsumed. Ibid., Though we take the word of transuming for changing, turning, transmuting, or transelementing,..yet meane they not chaunge of one substance into another. 1652Crashaw Carmen Deo Nostro Wks. (1904) 249 With a well-bles't bread and wine Transsum'd, and taught to turn divine.
†b. intr. for pass. = transmute v. 1 c. Obs. rare.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xv. iv, They [the four elements] be wont to transume, that one into that other.
¶ Some instances of transume in early printed books or modern editions from MS. are mis-readings of transmue: see quots. below; and in some of the passages quoted above in senses 2 and 3, transmue was possibly the author's word. It is possible that sense 3 originated in this confusion of form between transume and transmue.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 140/2 He..transumeth the payne perpetuell [Fr. orig. le muement de la paine de purgatoyre; Lat. orig. poenae purgatoriae..commutatio]..in to payne temporell. 1502Ord. Crysten Men v. vi. (W. de W.) qq iv b, The soule shall be in suche wyse transumed [Fr. orig. transmuee] in god. 1543Harding's Chron. clxxvi. iv, Syr Hugh..was transumed [rimes pursued, renewed] In high estate. 1909ed. of Pecock's Bk. of Faith c 1456, p. 157 The siȝt is the principal outward wit, and therfore his name may be transumed [MS. (Trin. Coll. Camb.) transmued] in to the name of ech othere outward witt. |