2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul. [They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. Milton. We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. South.
TRANSPORT
Trans"port, n. Etym: [F. See Transport, v.]
1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot.
2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; — called also transport ship, transport vessel.
3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an
imaginary throne. Pope.
Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled.
Doddridge.
4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
TRANSPORTABILITY
Trans*port`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being transportable.
TRANSPORTABLE
Trans*port"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transportable.]