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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.]
   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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   To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
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   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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   (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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   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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   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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   (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
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   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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