tralation

English

Etymology

From Latin tralatio, translatio. See translation.

Noun

tralation (plural tralations)

1. (obsolete) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope.
   • 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:

     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.

Anagrams

• latration