Middle English Dictionary Entry
translāting(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | translāting(e ger. |
| Etymology | From translāten v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The removal of something from one place to another; (b) the transfer of one's property to another, alienation; the diversion of revenue from one use to another; (c) the process of translating from one language into another.
Associated quotations
a
- (1474) Acc.St.Michael Cornhill in Camd.102175 : Payde for translatyng of the meyres pue, x s., vi d.
b
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)141/38 : If eny þing schulde excuse me fro þe seid translatyng, þilk þing schulde be a constreynyng bi gretter yuel þretenyd; and þilk þing is not in þis caas, for y go ferþir þan y am constreynyd to go, about þe tresour..þat y schulde ȝeue it to hem.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)137 : Is highnes woll establyshe þe same livelod than remaynynge to abide perpetuelly to his crowne, with owt translatynge þeroff to any oþer vse.
c
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)430 : Wel y woot defaute may be in vntrewe translating, as myȝten haue be many defautis in turnyng fro ebreu in-to greu, & fro greu in-to lateyn, & fro o langage in-to anoþer.
- a1500 Prayer in Laudate (1935) (Tit C.19)38 : In translatyng of one langage to a nother, some wordes mosten be chaunged, and in some places moo wordes mosten be seyde.