transumption

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English

Etymology

Latin transumptio.

Pronunciation

Noun

transumption (countable and uncountable, plural transumptions)

  1. Act of taking from one place to another.
    • a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. , volumes (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: Charles Bathurst, , published 1744, →OCLC:
      kind of transumption and accommodation

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for transumption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)