a. [f. prec. + -AL; cf. F. transactionnel (Littré).] Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a transaction; taking place in fact or reality.

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1858.  Bushnell, Serm. New Life, 94. A relation wholly transactional.

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1894.  Thinker, V. 155. The transactional revelation of principles and forces which are essential and eternal.

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  b.  Theol.: see TRANSACTION 3 c.

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1901.  R. C. Moberly, Atonement & Personality, ix. 218. Different forms of what the thought of the present day would sum up as the ‘transactional‘ theory of the atonement.

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1901.  Sanday, Life Christ in rec. Res., V. ix. (1907), 244. The ‘transactional’ theory [of the Atonement].

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1905.  Speaker, 4 Feb., 440/2. The Atonement understood in an entirely forensic or ‘transactional’ sense.

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  Hence Transactionally adv., by means, or by way of a transaction; practically.

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1865.  Bushnell, Vicar. Sacr., IV. i. (1868), 452. The object is to give him a lesson transactionally. Ibid. (1874), Forgiven. & Law, 59. Is it true that God must be gained or tempered transactionally, that is by acts in time, in order to the letting forth of grace upon his enemies?

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