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transpierce, v.|trɑːnsˈpɪəs, træns-|
[a. F. transpercer, f. trans- + percer to pierce. Cf. tresperce.]
1. trans. To pierce through from side to side (with the agent or the instrument as subject: cf. pierce v. 1).
1594Drayton Idea i, Then transpierce the Coarse. 1624Heywood Gunaik. iii. 160 She snatcht up a sword with which she transpierst her selfe. 1697Dryden æneid ii. 68 The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. 1725Pope Odyss. x. 188, I launch'd my spear, and with a sudden wound Transpierc'd his back, and fix'd him to the ground. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. xii. (ed. 3) 364 He falls, transpierced by many wounds.
b. transf. and fig.: esp. said of the effect of emotion, and the action of wind, light, sight, etc.
1598Drayton Heroic. Ep., C'tess Salisbury to Bl. Prince, Is that great hart, that did aspire so hie, So soone transpersed with a womans eye? 1601Daniel Civ. Wars vi. cxiv, Whereof the proofe was such As sharpest pride could not transpearce the same. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort., Mar. (1729) 197 The sharp Easterly and Northerly Winds transpierce, and dry them up. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlvi. IV. 479 note, The eye of Tacitus seems to have transpierced the camp of the Parthians and the walls of the haram. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Spir. Laws Wks. (Bohn) I. 67 The divine question which searches men, and transpierces every false reputation.
2. To make one's way through; to pass through, penetrate; in quot. 1908, to extend through. rare.
1604W. Harbert Poems (Grosart) 92 If England's loade⁓starre..Could the firme center's regiment transpearse. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 93 Compound spar... In a porcelain heat, it vitrifies with the crucible, which it transpierces. 1908Athenæum 6 June 701/3 A metal rod..transpierces the box.
Hence transˈpierced ppl. a.; transˈpiercing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1592Daniel Compl. Rosamond Wks. (1717) 42 Transpiercing Rays of christal pointed Eyes. 1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. xlv. 247 Such transpiercings as rankle the flesh within. 1838Mrs. Browning Isobel's Child x, Dear Lord, who spreadest out above Thy loving, transpierced hands. |