Edits, transpose the two commencing words of this line, and the first word of the preceding one. Edits., say.

There was no signatureunless one were clever or wise enough to transpose the two final letters and take them in relation to the word immediately preceding.

Take his verses, and divest them of their rhimes, disjoint them of their numbers, transpose their expressions, make what arrangement or disposition you please in his words; yet shall there eternally be poetry, and something which will be found incapable of being reduced to absolute prose; what he has done in any one species, or distinct kind of writing, would have been sufficient to have acquired him a very great name.

invert, subvert, retrovert^, introvert; reverse; up turn, over turn, up set, over set; turn topsy turvy &c adj.; culbuter^; transpose, put the cart before the horse, turn the tables.

send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose &c (interchange) 148; displace &c 185; throw &c 284; drag &c 285; mail, post. shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon.

V. be harmonious &c adj.; harmonize, chime, symphonize^, transpose; put in tune, tune, accord, string.

The Italians most part sleep away care and grief, if it unseasonably seize upon them, Danes, Dutchmen, Polanders and Bohemians drink it down, our countrymen go to plays: do something or other, let it not transpose thee, or by "premeditation make such accidents familiar," as Ulysses that wept for his dog, but not for his wife, quod paratus esset animo obfirmato, (Plut.

I have only allowed myself to transpose a word in the third line.

The additions of subsequent editors are but of trifling value compared with the information collected by Mr. Croker, and one of his successors at least has not hesitated slightly to transpose or alter many of Mr. Croker's notes, and mark them as his own.

All those numberless characters transpose themselves, and afterwards resume their rank and place to obey my command.

But the matter is one which requires much practice, lest we should do anything like those men who, though they have aimed at this style, have not attained it; so that we must not openly transpose our words in order to make our language sound better; a thing which Lucius Coelius Antipater, in the opening of his history of the Punic War, promises not to do unless it should be absolutely necessary.

But a man who avoids all these faults, so as neither to transpose words in such a manner that every one must see that it is done on purpose, nor cramming in unnecessary words, as if to fill up leaks, nor aiming at petty rhythm, so as to mutilate and emasculate his sentences, and who does not always stick to one kind of rhythm without any variation, such a man avoids nearly every fault.

The Chippewas in this quarter usually transpose the b and p in English words.

He could transpose a melody in any key.

We may reverse, transpose, diminish, or add to it, and so skilfully that no scam or mutilation shall be detected; and yet we shall not make it appear original,in other words, true, the offspring of one mind.

440 Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows, and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transpose. 'Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes heaven's gate a lock to its own key: Let him rail on, let his invective muse Have four and twenty letters to abuse, Which, if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence.

Instead, therefore, of giving an exact transcript of the original poems, he set himself to soften down their harshness, to clear away their obscurity, to amplify, transpose, and mutilate according to his own ideas of syntax, taste, and rhetoric.

Priestley observes, "Some writers affect to transpose these words, and place the numeral adjective first; [as,] 'The first Henry.'

Of all the novels and romances that wit or idleness, vanity or indigence, have pushed into the world, there are very few of which the end cannot be conjectured from the beginning; or where the authors have done more than to transpose the incidents of other tales, or strip the circumstances from one event for the decoration of another.

He moistens her fingers with the fluids she uses on her easel, and puts them to the rootlets of the rose, and they transpose its hues, or fringe it or tinge it with a new glory.

Gentle reader, "in maiden meditation, fancy free," did a dreamy thought of yours ever stray through the histories of your sex and its modes of dress and adornment, and so blend or transpose them as to present to you, in a sudden flash of the imagination, the Virgin Mary dressed like the Empress Eugenie?

If the two words mean the same here, transpose them: "Bring forth the steed!"

And then Contralto, "Mais seulement il se transpose Et passant de la forme au son, Trouve dans la métamorphose La jeune fille et le garçon.

" Transpose,a word never before used except in musical application, and now for the first time applied to material form, and with a beauty-giving touch that Phidias might be proud of.

They were, however, inclined to transpose Titian's birthday to a later date than 1477, rather than put back those of Palma and Giorgione to an earlier period, and in this they made a mistake."