transumptive

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English

Etymology

From Latin transumptivus.

Adjective

transumptive (comparative more transumptive, superlative most transumptive)

  1. Metaphorical.
    • 1597, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second. Notes of the Chronicle Historie.”, in Poems: , London: [Valentine Simmes] for N Ling, published 1605, →OCLC, folios 4, verso – 5, recto:
      Meander is a Riuer in Lycia, a Prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor famous for the ſinuoſitie and often turning thereof, riſing from certaine hills in Meonia, hereupon are intricate turnings by a tranſumptive and metonimicall kind of ſpeech, called Meanders, for this Riuer did ſo ſtrangely path it ſelfe, that the foote ſeemed to touch the head.
    • 1872, James Russell Lowell, The Shadow of Dante:
      fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive
  2. Transferred from one to another.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “transumptive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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