transume

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  1. To take from one to another; convert. [Rare.] That we may live, revive his death, With a well-blessed bread and wine Transum'd, and taught to turn divine. Crashaw, Hymn for the Blessed Sacrament.
  2. To copy or transcribe. Halliwell.

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  1. from Late Latin transumere, transsumere, take over, adopt, assume, from Latin trans, over, + sumere, take: see sumpt Cf. assume, consume, desume.
 

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