单词 | transumptive |
释义 | † transumptiveadj. Obsolete or archaic. Characterized by transumption; metaphorical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorical or figurative figurative14.. figural?a1500 translated1511 figurate1548 tropological1555 metaphorical1563 tropical1565 tropic1569 translate1582 allusory1587 translative1589 allusive1593 metaphoric1597 transumptive1597 transferent1614 translatitious1637 analogic1638 tralatitious1645 parabolic1696 tropologic1796 transitive1810 transferred1863 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. (Notes) f. 4 v Meander is a riuer in Lycia... Heereupon are intricate turnings by a transumptiue and Metonimicall kind of speech, called Meanders. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ xxvi. 265 Some..apply this text in an accommodate and transumptive sense. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 153 It was yielded to by a liberty transumptive or of taking one thing for another, without taking heed. 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 44 ‘The form or mode of treatment’, he [Dante] says, ‘is poetic, fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive’.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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