Meaning of transumptive | Babel Free

Definitions

Metaphorical.

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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