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[Lat. transcriptum, neut. sing. of transcript us, pa. par. of transcribo =to transcribe (q. v.); Ital. trans crit to.] 1. A writing made from and according to an original; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a copy from an original. "Episcopius replied, that he had none handsomely written; if the synod would have patience, he would cause a fair transcript to be drawn for them."- Hales: Letters from Synod of Dort, Dec., 1618. *2. A copy of any kind; an imitation. "Gaze on creation's model in thy breast Unveiled, nor wonder at the transcript more." Young: Night Thoughts , ix. trăn-script i on, s. [Latin transcriptio , from transcript us, pa. par. of transcribo to transcribe (q. v.); Fr. transcription ; Ital. transcrizione .] IMG:content-1327.png:[blocks in formation] II. Music : The arrangement or modification of a composition for some instrument or voice other than that for which it was originally written. trăn-script i on-al, adj. [Eng. transcription; -al.] Of or pertaining to transcription. "[He] flouts at transcriptional probability." -Academy, April 4, 1884, p. 254. *trăn-scriptive, adj . [Eng. transcript; -ive.] Done as from a copy; having the character of a transcript, copy, or imitation. "Excellent and useful authors, yet being either tran scriptive, or following common relations, their accounts are not to be swallowed at large or entertained without all circumspection." --Browne: Vulgar Errors. *trăn-scrip-tive-ly, adv . [Eng. transcriptive; -ly . In a transcriptive manner; in manner of a copy. 4152 *trans-cür', *trans-curre, v. i. [Latin trans curro: trans acro , and curro to run.] To run or rove to and fro. "By fixing the mind on one object, it doth not spatiate and transcurre."- Bacon : Nat . Hist ., § 720. *trăns-cur'-rençe, s . [ Lat.trans cur rens , pr. par. of transcurro to transcur (q. v.).] A running or roving hither and thither. *trăns-cür'-sion, subst . [Lat. transcursio , from trans cursus, pa. par. of transcurro = to transcur (q. v.).] A rambling or roving; a pa age beyond certain limits; a deviation. trans cursi on "Which cohesion may consist in of secondary substance through this whole sphere of life which we call a spirit." - More: Immort. of the Soul , bk. i., ch. vi. *trăns-cür'-sive, a . [TRANSCUR.] Rambling. *trăng-di-a-lěct, v . t . [Pref. trans-, and Eng. dialect (q. v.).] To translate or render from one dialect into another. "But now the fragments of these poems, left us by those who did not write in Doric, are in the common dialect. It is plain then they have been transdialected ."War burton: Divine Legation , bk. ii., § iii. *trănş-duc-tion, s. [Lat. trans duct us , pa. par. of transduco =to lead acro or over; trans =acro , over, and duco =to lead.] The act of leading or carrying over. *trănş-earth', v. t . [Pref. trans- , and Eng. earth (q. v.).] To transplant. "Fruits of hotter countries trans earthed in colder climates have vigor enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature."- Feltham : Resolves, 19. *trăng-ěl-e-ment, *trăns-ěl-e-men-tāte, v . t. [Pref. trans- , and Eng. element.] To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. "Theophylact useth the same word; he that eateth me, liveth by me; while he is in a certain manner mingled with me, and is transelemented or changed into me."Jeremy Taylor: Real Presence, § 12. *trănş-ěl-e-men-tā'-tion, s . [TRANS ELEMENT ATE.] The change of the elements of one body into those of another, as of the bread and wine into the actual body of Christ; transubstantiation. "The name of trans element at i on , which Theophylact did use, seems to approach nearer to signify the propriety of this mystery, because it signifies a change even of the first elements; yet that word is harder, and not sufficiently accommodate; for it may signify the resolution of one element into another, or the resolution of a mixed body into the elements." -Jeremy Taylor: Real Presence, § 12.