Obs. rare. [n. of action f. L. trānāre to swim across: see -TION.] A swimming or passing across, a crossing; also, a passing into another form, a transformation, metamorphosis.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, II. v. 52. The Metamorphosis, translation, or rather tranation of Arthur into a Crow. Ibid., III. iii. 84. In his Tranation he lookt about, and saw under him (though a farre off) his Lord upon Rosinante, no bigger than Toad upon a Ducking-stoole.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., III. 159. The Magnetical Fluors … finding the grain … of the Stone to lye fit for their Tranation, do channel through to the opposite part of the Stone.
1719. Glossogr. Angl. Nova, Tranation, a swimming or flying over, a crossing athwart, a piercing.
