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o or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.

An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the Italic version).

With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. Dryden.

Translated literally.

To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [R.] Peacham.

To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.

va, and Brahma. -- Om mani padme hun, a sacred formula of buddhism (esp. of the Lamaists) translated "O, the Jewel in the Lotus, Amen," and referring to Amitabha, who is commonly represented as standing or sitting within a lotus.

Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language. We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To write a parody upon; to burlesque. I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace. Pope.

The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also peschito.]

on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.

To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.

ng in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.

To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] Golden Boke.

To change or translate from one dialect into another. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.

The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.

One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.

Serving to translate; transferring. [R.] Arbuthnot.