retranslatev.
/ˌriːtransˈleɪt/, /ˌriːtrɑːnsˈleɪt/, /ˌriːtranzˈleɪt/, /ˌriːtrɑːnzˈleɪt/, U.S. /ˌriˈtrænzˌleɪt/, /ˌriˌtrænzˈleɪt/ 1.
a. transitive. To convey (something, esp. the remains of a saint) from one place to another for a second or subsequent time.
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a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xxxiv. 425 The translation of Chrysostomes body or reliques..from Comana, where hee dyed in banishment, to Constantinople is a matter so testified by Socrates..; But since it is retranslated, as they say, from Constantinople to Rome.
1714 G. Sewell Poem upon his Majesties Accession 4 Blest be the Guardian Angel of the Isle! That this fair Branch transplanted from the Soil That nurtur'd it with Care in Foreign Climes,..To retranslate it to the Land at length.
1872 S. Baring-Gould Lives Saints: Feb. 5 The relics of S. Ignatius were retranslated to Rome.
1878 J. H. Tice New Syst. Meteorol. I. xii. 151 When it [sc. air] has become exhausted in the discharge of its beneficent mission to the Earth, it is relieved and retranslated to the Sky.
1901 B. Holmes Lect. X. 97 The ghost of the poor queen could never find repose until the finger be retranslated to a more favorable and happier-chosen spot.
2004 R. C. Love Goscelin of Saint-Bertin Introd. p. lxxvi In the mid 1090s the saint's remains must have been retranslated as a consequence of Norman rebuilding.
b. transitive. Christian Church. To transfer (a bishop) to another see for a second or subsequent time. Now rare.In quot. 1842: to transfer (a bishop's see) back to its original location.
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1755 R. Keith Large New Catal. Bishops Scotl. 40 John Paterson, then bishop of Galloway, was immediately translated from thence to the bishoprick of Edinburgh; in which see he sat till the year 1687 he was re-translated to the archepiscopal see of Glasgow.
1842 F. W. Faber Foreign Churches i. 54 Gregory XI. retranslated the Holy See to Rome.
1884 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. 9 316 Conrad of Wittelsbach, so recently translated to Salzburg, was now retranslated to Mainz to fill the chair left vacant by the death of Archbishop Christian.
1906 D. Butler Tron Kirk Edinb. 187 William Forbes was translated from Aberdeen, but craved to be transported ‘on account of weakness of body’. He was retranslated to Edinburgh in 1633.
2. transitive. To translate (a word, text, etc.) again or in a new way.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)] > again
retranslate1861
1645 T. Weld Brief Narr. Pract. Churches New-Eng. 7 Wee have endeavoured, according to our light and time, to retranslate the Psalmes as neer the originall as wee could, into meeter.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 99 This letter to the Pope was written in Latine, then translated into Italian, then retranslated into English.
1750 W. King Elogium Jacci Etonensis 39 Bid him, if he'd make Latin on't, Sit down and re-translate it.
1786 J. Courtenay Poet. Rev. S. Johnson 23 (note) The Hymn to Camdeo..[was] translated from the Hindu language into Persian, and re-translated by Sir William Jones.
1792 J. Sinclair Let. 18 May in T. Jefferson Papers (1990) XXIII. 524 If you retranslate the Prospectus into English and print it, a spirit to that effect may be roused.
1860 G. H. Lewes Let. c10 July in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1954) III. 319 There are paragraphs which read like a translation from a language into which one cannot retranslate them.
1861 J. Pycroft Ways & Words 157 Of Cicero..he had translated and retranslated every extant oration.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 209 I have thought it best to retranslate the whole of it as closely as I could.
1935 E. E. Cummings Let. 11 Mar. (1969) 140 Am fighting..to retranslate 71 poems out of typewriter language into linotype-ese.
1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking Introd. p. xxxii ‘Pone’ they retranslated into ‘ashcakes’, like those baked of barley, rye, and wheat, in the ashes of their English hearths.
2007 Guardian 10 Nov. (Review section) 5/4 Making up for lost time, classicists rushed to re-interpret, even to re-translate, their texts into more graphically sexual terms.
Derivatives
retransˈlating n.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > again
retranslating1783
1783 H. Bright Praxis p. viii Of the good Effects of Double Construction, or Re-translating, as recommended by Pliny.
1867 Church Times 4 May 156/4 Words that have for a long time been controversial watch-words have lost all intelligible meaning for the mass of hearers, and want retranslating.
2004 L. C. Stanley Foreign Crit. Reputation of F. Scott Fitzgerald Introd. p. xvi Fernanda Pivano's translations in Italy have done yeoman's work over the decades, but scholars assert Fitzgerald's works need retranslating.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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