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& s. [Latin transitivus, from transitum, sup. of transeo =to pa over or acro ; Sp., Port., & Ital. transitivo; Fr. transit if.] A. As adjective: *I. Ordinary Language: IMG:content-1337.jpg:[graphic] 1. Having the power or property of pa ing on, or of making transition; pa ing on. "Cold is active and transitive into bodies adjacent, as well as heat." -Bacon: Nat . Hist ., § 70. 2. Effected by, or existing as, the result of transference, or extension of signification; derivative, secondary, metaphorical. 3. Acting as a medium. "An image that is understood to be an image can never be made an idol; or if it can it must be by having the worship of God pa ed through it to God; it must be by being the analogical, the improper, the transitive , the relative (or what shall I call it) object of divine worship." -Bp. Taylor: Rule of Conscience , bk. ii., ch. ii. II. Gram.: Taking an object after it; denoting action which pa es on to an object which is expre ed; as, a transitive verb. A transitive verb denotes an action which pa es on from the subject, which does, to the object to which the action is done. B. As subst.: A transitive verb. trăn-si-tive-ly, adv. [Eng. transitive; -ly.] *1. In a transitive manner; not directly; indirectly; by transference. "Vasquez, and I think he alone of all the world, owns the worst that this argument can infer, and thinks it lawful to give divine worship relatively or transitively to a man." -Bp . Taylor : Rule of Conscience , bk. ii., ch. ii. 2. As a transitive verb; with a transitive sense or force. "Words are often used promiscuously and eulogein taken transitively in this very case by the apostle." Water land: Works , vii. 86. trăn-si-tive-ne , s. [English transitive; -ne .] The quality or state of being transitive. trăn-si-tõr-i-lý, adv . [Eng. transitory: -ly.] In a transitory manner; with short continuance. trăn-si-tõr-i-ne , s . [Eng. transitory; -ne .] The quality or state of being transitory; speedy evanescence; shortne of duration; transientne . "Heedful observation may satisfy a man of the vanity of the world and the transitorine of external, and especially sinful, enjoyments."-Boyle: Works , vi. 792. *trăn-si-tör-I-oŭs, *tran-sy-tor-y-ouse, adj . [Latin transit or i us .] The same as TRANSITORY IMG:content-1338.png:[blocks in formation] Geol.: Certain beds constituting the pa age from the Upper Silurian to the Devonian. They are about 350 feet thick near Downton, in Here ford shire, England, and are a ociated with the Down ton sandstone and Ledbury shales. *transition-rocks, *transition-strata, s. pl . Geol .: An exploded geologic term introduced by Werner, the founder of the Neptunian school of geologists. Erroneously supposing all rocks to have been precipitated from water, he fancied that the primitive or crystalline rocks were first laid down. Then followed strata of a mixed character, partly crystalline, and yet here and there exhibiting marks not of a chemical but of a mechanical origin, and po e ing besides some organic re "Saynt Eanswyde, abbe e of Folk stane in Kent, inspyred of the deuyll, dyffyned christen marryage to be barren of all vertues, to haue but transytoryouse frutes, and to be a fylthye corrupt yon of virgin i tie." -Bale : Eng. Votaries , pt. i.