Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Taken from one to another; transferred from one to another; metaphorical.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Taking from one to another; metaphorical.

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  • adjective metaphorical

Etymologies

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Latin transumptivus.

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