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transilience rare.|trɑːnˈsɪlɪəns, træn-| [f. as next: see -ence.] A leaping from one thing to another, an abrupt transition: spec. in Min. abrupt transition of one mineral or rock into another.
1657Reeve God's Plea 204 Man may haue..his diffluences, redundances,..and transiliences of speech. 1811Pinkerton Petralogy II. 169 Rocks of black trap, surmounted by porphyry of the same base, the transilience being clear and palpable. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 330 Transferred by contact, or by sudden and violent transilience of the interval of separation..under the form of sparks and flashes. So † tranˈsiliency [see -ency], the quality of being transilient; less correctly = prec. Obs. rare—1.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. xii. 114 By an unadvised transiliency leaping from the effect to its remotest cause. |