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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Examples
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The Chariots in The Triumph of Life and Queen Mab can be read as transumptive emblems of the iterative power of allegory.
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