By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of
words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or
the fancy.
Stewart.
3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not
limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to
complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the
book.
— Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. — Tran"si*tive*ness, n.
Tran"si*to*ri*ly (?), adv. In a transitory manner; with brief
continuance.
Tran"si*to*ri*ness, n. The quality or state of being transitory; speedy
passage or departure.
Tran"si*to*ry (?), a. [L. transitorius: cf. F. transitoire. See
Transient.] Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting;
evanescent.
Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in
trouble.
Bk. of Com. Prayer.
It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for
a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing.
South.
Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in any county,
as actions for debt, and the like; — opposed to local action.
Blackstone. Bouvier.
Syn. — transient; short-lived; brief. See Transient.
Trans*lat"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being translated, or rendered into
another language.
Trans*late" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Translating.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer,
but from a different root. See Trans- , and Tolerate, and cf.
Translation.] 1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another;
to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] Dryden.
In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest
of her body being translated to Rome.
Evelyn.
2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to
transfer; hence, to remove as by death.