v. rare. [f. TRANS- + DIALECT.] trans. To translate from one dialect into another.
1698. C. Boyle, Bentley’s Dissert. (ed. 2), 52. If some Copyer … thought that Ocellus’s Physics would look better out of Doric, than in it, and therefore transdialected ’em.
1776. Burney, Hist. Mus., I. 331. The poems under the name of Orpheus were written in the Doric dialect, but have since been trans-dialected, or modernised.
1830. J. Douglas, Truths Relig. (1832), 361. The book of Job appears to be the original Arabic of Job and his friends transdialected and amplified by Moses.
