Translating

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Translate \Trans*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Translated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Translating}.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of
     transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See
     {Trans-}, and {Tolerate}, and cf. {Translation}.]
     1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to
        transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] --Dryden.


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              In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show
              her head- the rest of her body being translated to
              Rome.                                 --Evelyn.
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     2. To change to another condition, position, place, or
        office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
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     3. To remove to heaven without a natural death.
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              By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not
              see death; and was not found, because God had
              translatedhim.                        --Heb. xi. 5.
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     4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
        "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have
        translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . .
        refused." --Camden.
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     5. To render into another language; to express the sense of
        in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to
        explain or recapitulate in other words.
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              Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing
              language, what he found in books well known to the
              world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     6. To change into another form; to transform.
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              Happy is your grace,
              That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune
              Into so quiet and so sweet a style.   --Shak.
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     7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to
        another; as, to translate a disease.
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     8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
        [Obs.] --J. Fletcher.
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