Transumptive
"Transumptive" in a Sentence (2 examples)
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 ſelfe, that the foote ſeemed to touch the head.
fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive [translating Dante's Latin transumptivus], and withal definitive
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