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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Transport  \Trans*port"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Transported};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Transporting}.]  [F.  transporter,  L. 
  transportare  trans  across  +  portare  to  carry.  See  {Port} 
  bearing,  demeanor.] 
  1.  To  carry  or  bear  from  one  place  to  another;  to  remove;  to 
  convey;  as  to  transport  goods;  to  transport  troops. 
  --Hakluyt. 
 
  2.  To  carry,  or  cause  to  be  carried,  into  banishment,  as  a 
  criminal;  to  banish. 
 
  3.  To  carry  away  with  vehement  emotion,  as  joy,  sorrow, 
  complacency,  anger,  etc.;  to  ravish  with  pleasure  or 
  ecstasy;  as  music  transports  the  soul. 
 
  [They]  laugh  as  if  transported  with  some  fit  Of 
  passion.  --Milton. 
 
  We  shall  then  be  transported  with  a  nobler  .  .  . 
  wonder.  --South. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Transporting  \Trans*port"ing\,  a. 
  That  transports;  fig.,  ravishing. 
 
  Your  transporting  chords  ring  out  --Keble.




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