Word Meanings - RETRANSLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.

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• TRANSLATE
  To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
• ORIGINAL
  1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• ORIGINALNESS
  The quality of being original; originality. Johnson.
• ORIGINALIST
  One who is original.
• ORIGINALLY
  1. In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. God is originally holy in himself. Bp. Pearson. 2. At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as,
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• ORIGINALITY
  The quality or state of being original. Macaulay.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• MISTRANSLATE
  To translate erroneously.
• ABORIGINAL
  1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• ABORIGINALITY
  The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.
• RETRANSLATE
  To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.