Tralation
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope. obsolete
"My Detector could not have chosen a better man for the proof of the facility of this work, than him, who, according to the broad tralation of his rude Rhemists, gelded himself, and made himself no man for it."
Example
More examples"My Detector could not have chosen a better man for the proof of the facility of this work, than him, who, according to the broad tralation of his rude Rhemists, gelded himself, and made himself no man for it."
Etymology
From Latin tralatio, translatio. See translation.
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