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Webster 1913 Edition
Translate
Trans-late′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Translated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Translating
.] [f.
translatus
, used as p. p. of transferre
to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-
, and Tolerate
, and cf. Translation
.] 1.
To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer;
as, to
. translate
a tree[Archaic]
Dryden.
In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being
translated
to Rome. Evelyn.
2.
To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
3.
To remove to heaven without a natural death.
By faith Enoch was
translated
, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated
him. Heb. xi. 5.
4.
(Eccl.)
To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
“Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused.” Camden.
5.
To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words.
Translating
into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. Macaulay.
6.
To change into another form; to transform.
Happy is your grace,
That can
Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
That can
translate
the stubbornness of fortuneInto so quiet and so sweet a style.
Shakespeare
7.
(Med.)
To cause to remove from one part of the body to another;
as, to
. translate
a disease8.
To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
[Obs.]
J. Fletcher.
Trans-late
,Verb.
I.
To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
Webster 1828 Edition
Translate
TRANSLA'TE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To bear, carry or remove from one place to another. It is applied to the removal of a bishop from one see to another. The bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him to a better bishoprick, refused.
2.
To remove or convey to heaven, as a human being, without death. By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death. Heb. 16.
3.
To transfer; to convey from one to another. 2 Sam. 3.4.
To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.5.
To change. Happy is your grace,
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
6.
To interpret; to render into another language; to express the sense of one language in the words of another. The Old Testament was translated into the Greek language more than two hundred years before Christ. The Scriptures are now translated into most of the languages of Europe and Asia.7.
To explain.Definition 2024
translaté
translaté
See also: translate
French
Verb
translaté m (feminine singular translatée, masculine plural translatés, feminine plural translatées)
- past participle of translater