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transitional, a. (n.)|trɑːnˈsɪʒənəl, træn-, -ˈsɪʃ-, -ˈzɪʃ-|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to transition; characterized by or involving transition; intermediate.
c1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 262 The Jewish Rabbis..represented the Millennium as the preparative and transitional state to perfect spiritualization. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. vi. (1860) 172 By this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed. 1867A. J. Ellis E.E. Pronunc. i. i. 30 Shakspere and Milton are transitional between Spenser and Dryden. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. i. 3 At a transitional period in the world's developement. 1874Parker Goth. Archit. i. iii. 58 The arches are transitional, two being round and two pointed.
b. transitional case in grammar, a case in some languages expressing motion toward.
1890A. S. Gatschet Gram. Klamath Lang. 484 Transitional case in -na... This locative case-suffix..corresponds to our to, toward, into, in.
c. Chem. transitional element = transition element (a) s.v. transition 6 b.
1887C. M. Tidy Handbk. Mod. Chem. (ed. 2) ii. 54 In Group VIII. three elements occur. These are termed by Mendeleef ‘transitional elements’, that is, elements occurring between the even and the odd series of a long period. 1921J. R. Partington Text-bk. Inorganic Chem. xlviii. 972 The transitional elements.—The eighth group of the Periodic System comprises three sub-groups, with three elements in each, forming the termination of the even series 4, 6, and 8, and connecting the elements of these series with those of the odd series following. For this reason they were called by Mendeléeff the transitional elements.
B. ellipt. as n. (in quot. for transitional cell: cf. quot. 1904 s.v. mononuclear).
1904Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 583 They [mononuclear white blood cells] become transformed in the blood (according to Ehrlich) into the transitionals.
Hence tranˈsitionally adv., tranˈsitionalness.
1874Ruskin Fors Clav. xliv. 164 This plate of mine, melted down, after being transitionally serviceable to the burglar, will enter again into the same functions among the silver of the world. 1896Scot. Leader 1 Jan. 7 A deep sense of the transitionalness of conclusions which were once thought to be for all time.
Add:d. Usu. with capital initial. [There is app. no corresponding Chinese term for this style.] Of, pertaining to, or designating a style of Chinese ceramics dating from the period between the Ming and Qing dynasties (1619–c 1680) which, while retaining elements of late Ming, is characterized by innovation in form and decoration (spec. with reference to porcelain exported to Europe during this period).
[1910F. Perzynski in Burlington Mag. XVIII. xciii. 169/1 The porcelains painted in under-glaze blue during the later years of Wan Li's reign, and the transitional period between the Ming and the Ch'ing Dynasties, are usually summed up contemptuously under the name of ‘Export goods’. 1915R. L. Hobson Chinese Pott. & Porc. II. 257 One of these pieces..is a plate with arms of John Lambert, who was created a baronet in 1711 and died in 1722. It has enamels of the transition kind.] 1945W. B. Honey Ceramic Art of China ii. 121 An entirely new type of blue-and-white made its appearance. Of clean, rather heavy porcelain of a soft pure white colour, this ‘Transitional’ blue-and-white..shows a distinct range of forms. 1957Apollo June 251/1 ‘Rollwagon’ (or however you care to spell it) is still used of the cylindrical-bodied vases of the type frequently found in Transitional and K'ang Hsi blue-and-white. 1972Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. XXXVIII. 48 The Transitional wares often have a distinctive shape, tall cylinders sometimes with a flared mouth and foot and often with a knop-like waistband. 1984Times 16 Mar. 2/6 Late Ming and Transitional blue and white porcelain pieces have been most keenly collected in Holland since the seventeenth century. |