transumptive

adjective

tran·​sump·​tive

-(p)tiv

: of, relating to, or characterized by the transfer or substitution of terms : metaphorical

the transumptive power of poetry

—R. P. Blackmur

Word History

Etymology

Latin transumptivus, from transumptus + -ivus -ive

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