GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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    Translate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.]
    1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic]
      Dryden.

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      In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome.
      Evelyn.

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    2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
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    3. To remove to heaven without a natural death.
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      By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim.
      Heb. xi. 5.

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    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.

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    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.
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      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.

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    6. To change into another form; to transform.
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      Happy is your grace,
      That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune
      Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
      Shak.

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    7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
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    8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.]
      J. Fletcher.

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    Translate, v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
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