Meanings
nountralation (plural tralations)
plural tralations
- obsoleteThe use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope.
My Detector could not have chosen a better man for the proof of the facility of this work, than him, who, according to the broad tralation of his rude Rhemists, gelded himself, and made himself no man for it.
1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy
Origin
- Latintralatio
- Englishtralation
From Latin tralatio, translatio. See translation.
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tralation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tralation
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