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▪ I. transcript, n. (a.)|ˈtrɑːnskrɪpt, ˈtræn-|
Forms: α. 3–4 transcrit, (3 traunscrit), 5 transcrite, (6 tancrete). β. 5–7 transcripte, (6 -scrypt), 5– transcript.
[a. OF. transcrit (AF. also transescrit, transecrit) copy of a document, etc. (1221 in Godef.):—L. transcript-um, n. use of pa. pples. of F. transcrire, and L. transcrībĕre to transcribe. In 15th c. assimilated to the L. form transcriptum (evidenced from c 1200, in English use). A worn-down F. form tancrist, tanscrit (13th c. in Godef.), appears to be represented in 16th c. Eng. by tancrete (Skelton): see B.]
A. n.
1. a. A written copy; also transf. a printed reproduction of this; spec. in Law, a copy of a legal record.
αc1290Beket 551 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 122 Of ower olde lawes transcrit ȝe me take. Ibid. 553 Þe king him let a traunscrit take of his custumes echon. 1454Rolls of Parlt. V. 248/1 That a transcrite of this same Act..be sent unto our seid Tresorer. 1522[see B.].
β1467Mann. & Househ. Exp. Eng. (Roxb.) 402 Item, for a transcripte of the offyce of Gorge, ij. s. 1481Coventry Leet Bk. 493 A transcript of which lettre hereaftur ensueth. 1538Fitzherb. Just. Peas 187 The clerke of the petit bagge to certify the transcrypt of every suche offyce. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §54 The Archbishop and other Barons, are so cunningly named in the Popes Transcript, as if [etc.]. 1642Chas. I Answ. Declar. both Ho. 1 July 36 That which now remains being but a Transcript of a Transcript. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xliv. (1869) II. 637 Authentic transcripts were multiplied by the pens of notaries and scribes. 1803in Gurw. Wellington's Desp. (1837) II. 117 note, The note that I addressed to him.., a transcript of which is contained in the enclosure. 1875Scrivener Lect. Text N. Test. 15 The successive transcripts between the sacred autograph and the document before us.
b. A verbal or close translation or rendering. ? nonce-use. Cf. transcribe v. 2.
1871Browning (title) Balaustion's Adventure: including a transcript from Euripides.
2. transf. and fig. A copy, imitation, reproduction; a representation, rendering, interpretation.
1646J. Gregory Notes & Obs. Pref. (1650) 1 The Lesser worlds or men are but the Transcripts of the Greater, as Children and Bookes the Copies of themselves. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §53 Some Transcripts of such Expressions..he met with amongst the People. 1657Trapp Comm. Job iv. 3 Let our lives be a true transcript of our Sermons. 1711Addison Spect. No. 166 ⁋1 Words are the Transcript of those Ideas which are in the Mind of Man, and..Writing or Printing are the Transcript of Words. 1781Cowper Expost. 198 They only..Received the transcript of the eternal mind. 1860Westcott Introd. Study Gosp. vii. (ed. 5) 367 The Gospel of St. Mark is essentially a transcript from life. 1869McLaren Serm. Ser. ii. iii. (1875) 42 The artist that is satisfied with his transcript of his ideal will not grow any more.
3. Biol. A length of RNA or DNA which has been transcribed from a DNA or RNA template (respectively).
1961Jacob & Monod in Jrnl. Molecular Biol. III. 352 The molecular structure of proteins is determined by specific elements, the structural genes. These act by forming a cytoplasmic ‘transcript’ of themselves, the structural messenger. 1972Sci. Amer. Jan. 33/3 We have uncovered evidence that cancer-causing RNA viruses can produce a DNA transcript of the viral RNA. 1982Nature 13 May 130/2 Transcripts initiated further upstream than postion -675 will yield a protected fragment of ∼1,375 nucleotides.
B. ppl. a. Transcribed, copied.
c1450Godstow Reg. 102 A Transcripte charter of philippe Basset I-made to the mynchons of Godestowe. 1522Skelton Why not to Court 417 It shall be as he wyll Stop at law tancrete, An abstract or a concrete.
▪ II. † tranˈscript, v. Obs. rare.
[f. L. transcript-, ppl. stem of transcrībĕre to transcribe.]
trans. = transcribe. Hence † tranˈscripting vbl. n.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 123, I haue lost more labour then the transcripting of this Censure. 1609Sir T. Smith's Commw. Eng. To Rdr. 2 Corruption of coppies, happening..by the often transscripting. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. xiii. (1821) 625 A Letter from Sir Robert Cecill unto the Lord Deputie, and the same transcripted..unto the President. |