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† tranˈsumptive, a. Obs. or arch.
[ad. L. transumptīvus (Quintilian), f. transumpt-, ppl. stem of transūmĕre to transume + -īvus, -ive. Cf. OF. transsumptivement figuratively (Godef.).]
Characterized by transumption; metaphorical.
1597Drayton Heroic. Epist., Rosamond to Henry II, Annot., Meander is a riuer in Lycia... Heereupon are intricate turnings by a transumptiue and Metonimicall kind of speech, called Meanders. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ xxvi. 265 Some..apply this text in an accommodate and transumptive sense. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 153 It was yielded to by a liberty transumptive or of taking one thing for another, without taking heed. [1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 44 ‘The form or mode of treatment’, he [Dante] says, ‘is poetic, fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive’. ] |