transprose, v.
(trɑːnsˈprəʊz, træns-)
[f. trans- 2 + prose n. Orig. a nonce-word, to match transverse v.2, q.v.]
trans. To turn into prose; to translate or render in prose. (Chiefly humorous.)
| 1671 Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Rehearsal i. i. (Arb.) 31 Bayes... I Transverse it; that is, if it be Prose, put it into Verse, (but that takes up some time); if it be Verse, put it into Prose. Johns. Methinks, Mr. Bayes, that putting Verse into Prose should be call'd Transprosing. Bayes. By my troth, a very good Notion, and hereafter it shall be so. 1672 Marvell (title) The Rehearsal transpros'd: or, Animadversions upon a late Book, entituled, a Preface, shewing What Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery. 1673 [R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 4 What Miracles men of Art can do by Transversing Prefaces and Transprosing Playes. 1681 Dryden Abs. & Achit. ii. 443 Instinct he follows and no farther knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose. 1710 Steele Tatler No. 194 ¶ 1, I shall transprose it, to use Mr. Bays's Term. 1732 [see transverse v.2]. 1826 Museum Criticum I. 411 Babrius versified them [æsop's apologues]: various persons, as Mr. Smith says in the Rehearsal, transprosed the choliambics of Babrius. |
Hence transˈprosal, the action of ‘transprosing’, or something ‘transprosed’; transˈproser, one who ‘transproses’ (whence transˈprosership); transˈprosing vbl. n.
| 1671 Transprosing [see above]. 1673 S'too him Bayes 4 Godsookers you'l spoil all my Transprosal. Ibid. 34, I..bid your Transprosership heartily farewell. 1673 Answ. to ‘A Seasonable Disc.’ 19 Has not the judicious Transproser a long Paragraph of the furious temper of these Clergy Men? 1718 J. Trapp æneis (1735) I. Pref. 81 Tho' the Translating of Poems into Prose is a strange, modern Invention; yet the French Transprosers are so far in the right; because their Language will not bear Verse. |