TRANSITORY
Tran"si*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. transitorius: cf. F. transitoire. See
Transient.]
Defn: Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent. Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer. It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing. South. Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; — opposed to local action. Blackstone. Bouvier.
Syn.
— transient; short-lived; brief. See Transient.
TRANSLATABLE
Trans*lat"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.
TRANSLATE Trans*late", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating.] Etym: [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.)