Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Transmitted; transferred; hereditary.
- Same as
tralatitious .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective dated
metaphorical ;tralatitious
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Examples
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This is hoped will suffice to assure the ingenuous Reader that in no treatise of the translator's, whether original or translatitious, shall willingly be offered the meanest rub to the reputation of any worthy gentleman, and that, however providence dispose of him, no misfortune shall be able to induce his mind to any complacency in the disparagement of another.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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_translatitious_ forms of expression which they call _Tropes_, and of those various attitudes of language and sentiment which they call
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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This is hoped will suffice to assure the ingenuous Reader that in no treatise of the translator’s, whether original or translatitious, shall willingly be offered the meanest rub to the reputation of any worthy gentleman, and that, however providence dispose of him, no misfortune shall be able to induce his mind to any complacency in the disparagement of another.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This is hoped will suffice to assure the ingenuous Reader that in no treatise of the translator’s, whether original or translatitious, shall willingly be offered the meanest rub to the reputation of any worthy gentleman, and that, however providence dispose of him, no misfortune shall be able to induce his mind to any complacency in the disparagement of another.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This is practicable also for other trees, where the soil is over-moist or unkind: For as the elm does not thrive in too dry, sandy, or hot grounds, no more will it abide the cold and spungy; but in places that are competently fertile, or a little elevated from these annoyances; as we see in the mounds, and casting up of ditches, upon whose banks the female sort does more naturally delight; though it seems to be so much more addicted to some places than to others, that I have frequently doubted, whether it be a pure _indigene_ or _translatitious_; and not only because I have hardly ever known any considerable woods of them
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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