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Meaning of TRANSUMPTIVE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Tran*sump"tive\, a. [L. transumptivus.]
Taking from one to another; metaphorical. [R.] ``A
transumptive kind of speech.'' --Drayton.
      Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and
      withal definitive.                       --Lowell.
 
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