rare. [f. as next: see -ENCE.] A leaping from one thing to another, an abrupt transition: spec. in Min. abrupt transition of one mineral or rock into another.
1657. Reeve, God’s Plea, 204. Man may haue … his diffluences, redundances,… and transiliences of speech.
1811. Pinkerton, Petralogy, II. 169. Rocks of black trap, surmounted by porphyry of the same base, the transilience being clear and palpable.
1830. Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., 330. Transferred by contact, or by sudden and violent transilience of the interval of separation … under the form of sparks and flashes.
So † Transiliency [see -ENCY], the quality of being transilient; less correctly = prec. Obs. rare–1.
1661. Glanvill, Van. Dogm., xii. 114. By an unadvised transiliency leaping from the effect to its remotest cause.
