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English
Etymology
From Latin transumere, transumptum (“to take from one to another”), in Latin (“to transcribe”). See transume.
Noun
transumpt (plural transumpts)
- (obsolete) A copy or exemplification of a record.
1563, John Foxe, “Answer of the Nobles of Bohemia”, in Stephen Reed Cattley, editor, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume 3, published 1837:As for the excommunication which he hath so long sustained, they have heard him often say, that he hath not resisted against the same by contumacy, or stubbornness, but under evident appellation, and thereupon referreth himself unto the acts of his causes which were pleaded in the court of Rome, wherein all this is more largely contained; which your reverences may evidently perceive and see in this our present public transumpt, which we have offered unto you upon certain points aforesaid.
1649, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reigne of King Henry the Eighth:Edward Lee the Kings Almoner; who, sending the transumpt of the Breve to the King April 23, by a Letter 12 of June following, also certified our King of the sending of Gonçales Fernando […]
References
“transumpt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.