Hypertext Webster Gateway: "transporting"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Transport \Trans*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transported}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Transporting}.] [F. transporter, L.
transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See {Port}
bearing, demeanor.]
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to
convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
--Hakluyt.

2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a
criminal; to banish.

3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow,
complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or
ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

[They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of
passion. --Milton.

We shall then be transported with a nobler . . .
wonder. --South.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Transporting \Trans*port"ing\, a.
That transports; fig., ravishing.

Your transporting chords ring out. --Keble.


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