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transumptive

transumptive adjective: metaphorical.

Adjective

transumptive (comparative more transumptive, superlative most transumptive)

  1. Metaphorical.
    • Meander is a riuer in Lycia, a prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor, famous for the ſinuoſitie & often turning thereof, riſing from certaine hills in Mæonia[;] heerevpon are intricate turnings by a tranſumptiue & metonimicall kind of ſpeech, called Meanders, for this Riuer did ſo ſtrangely path it...1597, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second. Notes of the Chronicle Historie”, in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for...
    • fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive [translating Dante's Latin transumptivus], and withal definitive1872, James Russell Lowell, The Shadow of Dante

Forms of transumptive

comparativemore transumptive
superlativemost transumptive

Origin of transumptive

From Latin transumptivus.

Questions about transumptive

What does transumptive mean?
Transumptive means metaphorical.
What part of speech is transumptive?
Transumptive is an adjective.

Words near transumptive in the dictionary

  1. transumes
  2. transuming
  3. transumpt
  4. transumption
  5. transumptions
  6. transumptive
  7. transumpts
  8. transungual
  9. transuranic
  10. transuranics
  11. transuranium

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