\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.
         In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show
         her head- the rest of her body being translated to
         Rome.                                 --Evelyn.
2. To change to another condition, position, place, or
   office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
3. To remove to heaven without a natural death.
         By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not
         see death; and was not found, because God had
         translatedhim.                        --Heb. xi. 5.
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.
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.
         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.
6. To change into another form; to transform.
         Happy is your grace, That can translatethe
         stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a
         style.                                --Shak.
7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to
   another; as, to translate a disease.
8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
   [Obs.] --J. Fletcher.

\Trans*late\, v. i.
To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.