transumev.
/trɑːnˈsjuːm//tranˈsjuːm/ Obsolete exc. Historical.† 2. To take from one to another, take over; to transfer, transport. Obsolete.† 3. † b. intransitive for passive. = transmute v. 1c. Obsolete. rare.
1. transitive. To make an official copy of a (legal) document; = exemplify v. 6a. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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society > communication > writing > manner of writing > copying or transcribing > copy or transcribe [verb (transitive)] > make official copy
exemply?a1425
exemplify1446
transume1482
exemplificate1570
1482 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1711) XII. 165/1 We have Decerned..the said Letters to be Exemplified and Transsumed.
1533 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 413 That the same Acte may be impressed, transumed, and set up on every churche dore.
1541 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 64 Ane transump and instrument transsumit out of Master Androu Cheves prothogall buik.
1545 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. 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.
1598 D. Wedderburn Compt Bk. (S.H.S.) 157 David Ostlar..restis awin me a Crown for transuming Andro Ostlaris barnis Seasingis.
1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) iv. xxxi. §4 Although there be no express obligment to grant Transumpts, yet the Interest in common Evidents, is a sufficient Title to cause them be produced, to be Transumed.
1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iv. i. §53. 657 An action of transumpt,..is competent to any person who has a partial interest in a writing,..against him in whose custody the writing lies, to exhibit it.
1881 S. R. Macphail Relig. House Pluscardyn xi. 107 The original bull..having been produced in court to be transumed.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)]
remuea1325
movea1382
translatea1382
transfer1382
transfigurec1384
removea1387
to turn overa1425
transume1483
to carry about1496
traduce1546
transplant1555
transact1621
transmigrate1635
hand1642
to make over1713
recover1719
to carry over1850
1483 W. Caxton Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxix. 76 This word statua, whiche that we transumen in to Englysshe, that is to mene an Image.
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 184 Termes properly belonging to time, are yet sometimes transsumed to denote what is pertinent to eternity.
1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 17 The Angell..bade him close his eyes, and he would transume and rappe him up into that place of glory.
1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 382 Physicians affirm..the Seed of the Man disappears, being transum'd into the Flesh of the Woman.
a. To transmute, change, convert (into something else).
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)]
wendOE
forshapeOE
workOE
awendOE
makec1175
turna1200
forwenda1325
change1340
shape1362
transmewc1374
transposec1380
puta1382
convertc1384
exchangea1400
remue?a1400
makea1425
reduce?a1425
removec1425
resolvea1450
transvertc1450
overchangec1480
mew1512
transmutea1513
wring1524
reduct1548
transform1556
innovate1561
metamorphose1576
transume1579
metamorphize1587
transmove1590
transchangea1599
transfashion1601
deflect1613
fordo1624
entail1628
transmutate1632
distila1637
to make much (also little, something, nothing, etc.) of1637
transqualify1652
unconvert1654
simulate1658
spend1668
transverse1687
hocus-pocus1774
mutate1796
fancy1801
to change around1871
metamorphosize1888
catalyse1944
morph1996
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 155 The bread and wine are transsumed.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 155 Though we take the word of transuming for changing, turning, transmuting, or transelementing,..yet meane they not chaunge of one substance into another.
1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 77 With a well-blest Bread and Wine Transum'd, and taught to turne Divine.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > be transformed [verb (intransitive)]
wortheOE
awendOE
golOE
turnc1275
changec1300
runc1384
to run into ——c1384
fare1398
writhea1400
transmewc1400
returnc1475
transume1480
convert1549
transform1597
remove1655
transeate1657
transmute1675
make1895
metamorphose1904
shapeshift1927
metamorphize1943
metamorphosize1967
morph1992
1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xv. iv They [the four elements] be wont to transume, that one into that other.
4. 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, 3, transmue was possibly the author's word. It is possible that sense 3 originated in this confusion of form between transume and transmue.
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1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 140/2 He..transumeth the payne perpetuell [Fr. le muement de la paine de purgatoyre; L. poenae purgatoriae..commutatio]..in to payne temporell.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) v. vi. sig. qq.iiiiv The soule shall be in suche wyse transumed [Fr. transmuee] in god.
1543 Harding's Chron. clxxvi. iv Syr Hugh..was transumed [rhymes pursued, renewed] In high estate.
1909 ed. 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.
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