Middle English Dictionary Entry
transumpciǒun n.
Entry Info
| Forms | transumpciǒun n. Also transsumpcioun, trans(s)umpcion. |
| Etymology | OF transsumption & L trans(s)umptio, -iōnis. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Copying, transcription; (b) rhet. a figure, usu. metaphor or simile; also, the use of metaphor.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)prol.264 : Thoruȝ veyn fables..They han contreved by false transumpcioun To hyde trouthe falsely vnder cloude, And the sothe of malys for to schroude, As Omer dide.
b
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)258 : Bi this colour of speche, which in rethorik is clepid transsumpcioun, Crist seid that he was a vyne, and hise disciplis weren braunchis.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)101 : Panis in her tonge is 'breed' and perna or perne soundith as 'fatnesse', whech fatnesse with a maner of a transumpcion is used in our langage for 'plente' as we say a 'fat' lond whech is plenteuous of birden.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)85/27 : Neophites wer cleped in eld tyme folk newly conuerted to þe feith, and all þese transumpciones folowing rehersith our auctour to þis entent: þat men of religion schuld not haue fair condiciones owtward and euel inward, as malys in soule lich a wolf and innocens in wordis lich schepis wolle, and soo may men expounne all þe othir transumpciones.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)117/24 : Yet some qualitees that ben appropred to man principally ben attribute to God by transsumpcion, amonge which I take ire and furour, that thei ben humayne passions and titles of imperfeccion and therfore thei compacte not, thes titles, to God truely.