v. Obs. rare. [f. after TRANSPARENT; cf. med.L. transpārē-re, f. trans. TRANS- 1 + pārēre to appear, show oneself; It. transparere (Florio, 1598).] intr. a. To be or become transparent. b. To appear or be visible through a transparent medium.
1604. Earl Stirling, Aurora, lxxiii. Oft haue I wish’d … That th’ Alabaster bulwarke might transpare, And that the pillars rarer then they are, Might whiles permit some hapning rayes to passe. Ibid., xcix. But through the yce of that vniust disdane, Yet still transpares her picture and my paine.
1661. Blount, Glossogr. (ed. 2), Transpare..., to appear through, to be evident, or clear.
