Translation
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Translation - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
TRANSLA'TION, n. [L. translatio.]
1. The act of removing or conveying from one place to another; removal; as the translation of a disease from the foot to the breast.
2. The removal of a bishop from one see to another.
3. The removal of a person to heaven without subjecting him to death.
4. The act of turning into another language; interpretation; as the translation of Virgil or Homer.
5. That which is produced by turning into another language; a version. We have a good translation of the Scriptures.
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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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