transumptive

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transumptive - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Transumptive \Tran*sump"tive\, a. [L. transumptivus.]
     Taking from one to another; metaphorical. [R.] "A
     transumptive kind of speech." --Drayton.
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           Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and
           withal definitive.                       --Lowell.
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