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Webster 1913 Edition
Transumptive
Tran-sump′tive
,Adj.
[L.
transumptivus
.] Taking from one to another; metaphorical.
[R.]
“A transumptive kind of speech.” Drayton.
Fictive, descriptive, digressive,
transumptive
, and withal definitive. Lowell.
Definition 2024
transumptive
transumptive
English
Adjective
transumptive (comparative more transumptive, superlative most transumptive)
- metaphorical
- A transumptive kind of speech. — Drayton.
- Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive. — Lowell.