2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
3. To remove to heaven without a natural death.
By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had
translatedhim.
Heb. xi. 5. 4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the
king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden.
5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence,
to explain or recapitulate in other words.
Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the
world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.
Macaulay. 6. To change into another form; to transform.
Happy is your grace,
That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
Shak. 7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.
Translate
(Trans*late), v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
Translation
(Trans*la"tion) n. [F. translation, L. translatio a transferring, translation, version. See Translate,
and cf. Tralation.]
1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as,
the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.
2. The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.
3. That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.
4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A. Tucker.
6. (Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity
and direction of motion; — opposed to rotation.
Translatitious
(Trans`la*ti"tious) a. [See Tralatitious.] Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic.
[Obs.] Evelyn.
Translative
(Trans*lat"ive) a. [L. translativus that is to be transferred: cf. F. translatif.] tropical; figurative; as,
a translative sense. [R.] Puttenham.
Translator
(Trans*lat"or) n. [L. translator: cf. F. translateur.]
1. One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of
words in one language by equivalent words in another.
2. (Teleg.) A repeating instrument. [Eng.]
