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Translated literally.

LITERALLY
1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
TRANSLATRESS
A woman who translates.
TRANSLATITIOUS
Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. Evelyn.
TRANSLATORSHIP
The office or dignity of a translator.
TRANSLATIVE
tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. Puttenham.
TRANSLATION
A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. B. Jonson. (more info) transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. 1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of
TRANSLATABLE
Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.
TRANSLATOR
A repeating instrument. (more info) 1. One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.
TRANSLATE
To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
TRANSLATORY
Serving to translate; transferring. Arbuthnot.
MISTRANSLATE
To translate erroneously.
MISTRANSLATION
Wrong translation.
RETRANSLATE
To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.