tralation

noun

noun

Etymology From Latin tralatio, translatio. See translation.

Obsolete The 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:

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