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▪ I. transporting, vbl. n.|trɑːnˈspɔətɪŋ, træn-|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb transport; transportation.
1500in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 391 After the transporting of the same to sell the said warres. 1574in Maitl. Cl. Misc. I. 101 Transporting of certane quheit furth of this realme without lycence. 1612J. More in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 125 The transporting of Sir John Ogle's regiment to my Lord Chandos. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 209 Clay is not dear, unless in the Carriage and Transporting of it. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ix. II. 531 He would be no party to the transporting of the prince into France.
b. Naut. (See quot.) Also attrib.
c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 156 Transporting, moving a ship from one situation to another by hawsers only. Ibid., Transporting-blocks, two snatch-blocks, fitted on each side above the taffrail to admit a hawser, when transporting the ship from one place to another.
c. Sc. See transport v. 2 a, b.
1707[see transport v. 2 b]. 1904R. Small Hist. U.P. Congregat. I. 446 In September 1825 transporting calls came up to Mr. Ritchie from Dunfermline..and from the Potterrow. Ibid. 469 Mr. M‘Gilchrist's mind was not up to the transporting point yet.
▪ II. tranˈsporting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That transports.
1. That removes from one place to another; engaged in transportation.
a1618Raleigh Apology 12 That we might have kept our Transporting ships with our men of War. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 312 The direction and position of their destroying and transporting power. 1834–5J. Phillips in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 705/1 The transporting action of streams. 1886Academy 7 Aug. 82/1 Michael is hurried into the transporting ship which founders with all on board.
2. fig. Causing transport, ecstasy, or rapture; ravishing, enchanting.
c1655A. Sidney Love in 19th Cent. Jan. (1884) 58, Epicureans allow soe much of it [Love] as conduceth to pleasure, but reject the transporting part. 1707Watts Hymn, ‘My God, the spring of all my joys’ iv, My soul would leave this heavy clay At that transporting word. 1796E. Inchbald Nature & Art v, So did Henry survey, with transporting glory, his brother, drest for the first time in canonicals.
Hence tranˈsportingly adv., in a transporting manner; ravishingly.
1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. xi. (1713) 121 We see sundry Species of living Creatures this way the most pleasantly and transportingly provided for. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 54 [He] felt himself transportingly amaz'd. |