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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

tralatio

translatio

.See

The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope.

[Obs.]

Bp. Hall.

Noun.

[from L. translatio.] A change in the use of a word, or the use of a word in a less proper, but more significant sense.

tralation

(obsolete) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope.
- Bishop Joseph Hall
  My Detector could not have chosen a better man for the proof of the facility of this work, than him, who, according to the broad tralation of his rude Rhemists, gelded himself, and made himself no man for it.