a. Obs. or arch. [ad. L. transumptīvus (Quintilian), f. transumpt-, ppl. stem of transūmĕre to TRANSUME + -īvus, -IVE. Cf. OF. transsumptivement figuratively (Godef.).] Characterized by transumption; metaphorical.
1597. Drayton, Heroic. Epist., Rosamond to Henry II., Annot. Meander is a riuer in Lycia…. Heereupon are intricate turnings by a transumptiue and Metonimicall kind of speech, called Meanders.
1657. W. Morice, Coena quasi Κοινὴ, xxvi. 265. Some … apply this text in an accommodate and transumptive sense.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 153. It was yielded to by a liberty transumptive or of taking one thing for another, without taking heed.
[1876. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 44. ‘The form or mode of treatment,’ he [Dante] says, ‘is poetic, fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive.’]
