Middle English Dictionary Entry
transite n.
Entry Info
| Forms | transite n. Also trancite. |
| Etymology | L transitus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A passageway; (b) the passing of people to and fro, passage, movement.
Associated quotations
a
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)499 : Trancyte, where menn walke: Transitus.
b
- a1500 GRom.(Add 9066)12 : Grete cause have I so to sorow, and thou also, ffor above oure hede there is a transite of men [Hrl: passage and goyng of peple], and there the sonne shyneth in his clerte, and..we are in a contynuell derknesse.