1. To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to
another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit
money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another.
The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of
evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the
gospel.
Milton.
The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile.
Prescott. 2. To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity.
Transmittal
(Trans*mit"tal) n. Transmission. Swift.
Transmittance
(Trans*mit"tance) n. Transmission.
Transmitter
(Trans*mit"ter) n. One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic
or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; — opposed to receiver.
Transmittible
(Trans*mit"ti*ble) a. Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.
Transmogrification
(Trans*mog`ri*fi*ca"tion) n. The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation.
[Colloq.]
Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son.
Thackeray. Transmogrify
(Trans*mog"ri*fy) v. t. [A humorous coinage.] To change into a different shape; to transform.
[Colloq.] Fielding.
Transmove
(Trans*move") v. t. [Pref. trans + move.] To move or change from one state into another; to
transform. [Obs.] Spenser.
Transmutability
(Trans*mu`ta*bil"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. transmutabilité.] The quality of being transmutable.
Transmutable
(Trans*mut"a*ble) a. [Cf. F. transmutable. See Transmute.] Capable of being transmuted
or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable.
The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily transmutable into one another.
Arbuthnot. — Trans*mut"a*ble*ness, n. — Trans*mut"a*bly, adv.
Transmutation
(Trans`mu*ta"tion) n. [F. transmutation, L. transmutatio. See Transmute.]
1. The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.
2. (Geom.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but
of a different form, as of a triangle into a square. [R.]
3. (Biol.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development
theory of life; transformism. Bacon.
Transmutation of metals (Alchem.), the conversion of base metals into gold or silver, a process often
attempted by the alchemists. See Alchemy, and Philosopher's stone, under Philosopher.
Transmutationist
(Trans`mu*ta"tion*ist), n. One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.
