transumptive

From Latin transumptivus.

transumptive (comparative more transumptive, superlative most transumptive)

1. Metaphorical.
   • 1597, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second. Notes of the Chronicle Historie.”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, published 1605, →OCLC, folios 4, verso – 5, recto:

     Meander is a riuer in Lycia, a prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor, famous for the ſinuoſitie & often turning thereof, riſing from certaine hills in Mæonia[;] heerevpon are intricate turnings by a tranſumptiue & metonimicall kind of ſpeech, called Meanders, for this Riuer did ſo ſtrangely path it ſelfe, that the foote ſeemed to touch the head.

   • 1872, James Russell Lowell, The Shadow of Dante:

     fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive [translating Dante's Latin transumptivus], and withal definitive

• transume
• transumpt
• transumption

• “transumptive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.