translatitiousadj.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Translatice, translaticious, translatiue; transposed, transferred.

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico v. 138 Religion among Hereticks is not their own, but accidentall and translatitious.

1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) iv. 32 I have frequently doubted, whether it [sc. the Elm-tree] be a pure Indigene or translatitious.

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. vii. 168 A delegated, translatitious Majesty we allow, but that Majesty does chiefly and primarily reside in him, you can no more prove, than you can, that Power and Authority does.

1795 T. Pownall Antiquarian Romance 96 The Greeks, by their mode of expression, made the name [sc. Got-Teus] Cottus; as the Orientals framed therefrom the translatitious name Teu-Bâal.

1843 Ld. Brougham Polit. Philos. II. xii. 143 Some of these [sc. laws] were deemed translatitious, being taken from former edicts.

2012 Classical Antiq. 31 120 The translatitious (or migratory) character of mousike, that is, the capacity of melodies, poems, and songs to be re-performed at occasions different from the ones for which they were originally composed.

1637 Abp. J. Williams Holy Table 77 A Table ought to be the distinct and proper (and so the usuall) an Altar but the translatitious and borrowed..appellation of that holy utensill.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. ii. i. 228 It appears sometimes under a Metaphor, or some other translatitious expression.

1737 E. Manwaring Hist. & Crit. Acct. Classic Authors 342 Illustrious Sentiments, translatitious Terms and foreign Words, give Grandeur and Majesty.

1847 London Jrnl. 2 Jan. 260/2 The frequent use of those translatitious forms of expression, which are called tropes.

?1870 F. Gómez Palacio Indian Depredations Indemnity Claims 4 The same word (injury) has acquired in the common language another secondary and translatitious meaning.

1643 T. Swadlin Script. Vindicated 114 Baptisme is taken either..properly for dipping in, or..Translatitiously.

1648 J. Owen Salus Electorum iv. v. 251 Now the word ἀγοράζω here used, signifieth primarily the buying of things; translatitiously, the redemption of persons.

1652 T. Urquhart Παντοχρονοχανον 45 Translatitiously, both in England, and the Low-Countries of Scotland, we by an inveterate custom derived from thence, do say as yet, Donaldson, Hughson, Johnson, &c.

1705 J. Beaumont Hist. Treat. Spirits x. 281 When we find any strange Relation in that kind, we ought duly to weigh what is really perform'd by the Magick Art, and what contains some abstruse sense, and is proposed translatitiously, and by way of Ænigma.