[f. L. trāject-, ppl. stem of trājicĕre: see prec.)
† 1. trans. To pass across, to cross (a river, sea, etc.). Also intr. Obs. rare.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., I. 31. She … trajecting many seas … came at length into Egypt. Ibid., V. 231. The river Araxes, which he had late with a mightie host trajected.
1711. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 132. The Prince … would have … marched up by the river to Navan,… and there have trajected. Ibid., 169. That induced General de Ginckle … to traject the Shanon.
2. To carry or convey across or over; to transport.
† a. (something material). Obs.
1635. Heywood, Hierarch., VIII. 510. He would traject them dry-foot through the seas. Ibid. (1637), Dial., xvi. Wks. 1874, VI. 236. The ferriman, who from the rivers brim Trajected thee.
1651. C. Cartwright, Cert. Relig., I. 30. Him [Christ] we must mastigate, and chew by faith: traject, and convey him into our hearts as nutriment.
1684. T. Burnet, Th. Earth, I. 232. The notion, that the rivers of paradise were trajected out of the other hemisphere into this by subterraneous passages.
b. To transmit (light, shadow, or color).
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., Pref. Trajecting these lines through the sieve of our Crebrosity.
1661. Glanvill, Van. Dogm., 14. The shadow of a horse trajected against a wall.
1672. Newton, in Phil. Trans., VII. 5101. To this way of Compounding Whiteness may be referr’d that other, by Mixing light after it hath been trajected through transparently colour’d substances. Ibid. (1704), Optics (1721), 57. A Prism, by which the trajected Light might be refracted either upwards or sideways.
c. To transmit (thought, words, etc.).
a. 1711. Ken, Edmund, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 169. By mutual Thoughts trajected either Soul Began each other sweetly to condole.
1863. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., xiii. 324. She compared him to that dervis who possessed the power of trajecting his soul into the body of any individual that suited his purpose.
1895. Macpherson, Ch. & Priory Monymusk, ii. 52. We can account for their name … being even trajected into a longer and more distant period during which they had no existence at all.
