What does tralation mean?
Tralation means (obsolete) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope..
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(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.
Use tralation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tralation means (obsolete) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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