Meaning of transverbate | Babel Free

Definitions

To translate word by word, making only syntactic adjustments, but not adapting to the idiom of the target language.

Examples

“If we could take⟳ the Hebrew and the Greek and transverbate them it would be comparatively easy; but we have⟳ to remember⟳ always that we are translating for a people who do not regard the Bible in any sense⟳ as a book of authority.”

“But here also one of the crying needs of the day is for competent, well-equipped native Christians who shall substitute for the translated or transverbated publications of the present⟳, Christian tracts and books written by Chinese for the Chinese, in the form⟳ that will most powerfully appeal to their type⟳ of mind⟳ and training and social culture.”

“All the more is he called upon to answer⟳ the difficult question⟳: What terms or phrases enshrine specifically biblical conceptions or teachings, and therefore must be transverbated into the speech of India, as a Christian enlargement of her world of thought, and which will exercise their true force⟳ by freer translation?”

CEFR level