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trajection|trəˈdʒɛkʃən|
[ad. L. trājectiōn-em a crossing over, transportation, n. of action f. trājicĕre to throw or convey across: see traject.]
1. The action of trajecting or fact of being trajected; a throwing or carrying across; passage through.
†a. Passage across a river, etc. Obs.
1637Heywood Dial. xv. Wks. 1874 VI. 232 My due for thy trajection downe here lay. 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 144 The spectre at the Rubicon, Caesar hesitating that trajection. 1690T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 88 No long passage or trajection will be requir'd from shore to shore. 1711in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 133 The King observeing the Prince to attempt a trajection [of the Boyne] commanded his army to..face to the enemy.
†b. The passing (of anything) through a sieve or the like. Obs. rare.
1657Physical Dict., Trajection,..as cheese is strained from the whey. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 85 By common trajection..or by a more peculiar colation.
c. Passage or transmission through any medium, or through space.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 254 They might in all parts behold the trajections and motions of the starres. 1661Boyle Cert. Physiol. Ess. (1669) 166 Such Comets as have by a Trajection through the Ether, for a long time wander'd through the Celestial or Interstellar part of the Universe. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. i. 147 The Trajections and shooting of the Stars. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. vi. v. 365 The Trajection and Distribution of the Blood depends wholly on the Systole of the Heart. 1860[see trajectile n.].
d. Transmission (of light, heat, or other form of energy).
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 19 Those upon earth that are said to have half a year night; yet are not without some trajection of light. 1661Boyle Spring of Air ii. i. (1682) 21 Supposing light not to be made by a trajection of Atoms through Diaphanous bodies. 1704Norris Ideal World ii. iii. 189 Vision may be considered..as it signifies the passing or trajection of the rays of light, with all their refractions thro' the several coats and humours of the eye.
e. fig.
1888A. S. Wilson Lyric Hopeless Love cxxxvii, Not happiness but purpose drives The dim trajection of our lives. 1905Athenæum 11 Feb. 174/1 His trajection of the ignorance of primitive man on this unknown immensity is very impressive.
†2. A perception transmitted to the mind; an impression, a mental image. Obs.
1594Zepheria ii, When I empris'd..The siluer lustre of thy brow t' unmask, Though hath my Muse hyperboliz'd trajections: Yet stands it aye deficient to such task. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. x. 357 The trajections of such an object [must] more sharpely pierce the martyr'd soul of John, then afterward did the nayls the crucifyed body of Peter.
3. Transposition; metathesis.
1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. 191 ægypt is by them named..not without some trajection of letters, {hebresh}פת{hebkaph} for {hebresh}תפ{hebkaph}. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 289 Here is a more obscure Trajection or Transposition of the phrases in this verse. 1795J. Macknight Epist. (1820) III. 95 The words are placed in the end of the verse by a trajection usual in Paul's writings. 1875Jowett Plato I. 152 You must suppose him to make a trajection of the word..‘truly’. 1895A. E. Housman in Classical Rev. Oct. 354/1 As a Corpus Poetarum is a work of reference.., there is some disadvantage in admitting even the most certain trajections. |