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Webster 1913 Edition

Transumptive

Tran-sump′tive

,

Adj.

[L.

transumptivus

.]

Taking from one to another; metaphorical.

[R.]

“A transumptive kind of speech.”

Drayton.

Fictive, descriptive, digressive,

transumptive

, and withal definitive.

Lowell.