a. Obs. [f. L. translātīcius, -ītius traditional, customary, metaphorical, f. translāt-: see TRANSLATE v. and -ITIOUS1. Cf. obs. F. translatice (Cotgr.).]
1. Characterized by being transmitted, transferred, or carried from one person or place to another.
1611. Cotgr., Translatice, translaticious, translatiue; transposed, transferred.
1650. R. Stapylton, Strada’s Low C. Warres, V. 138. Religion among Hereticks is not their own, but accidentall and translatitious.
1664. Evelyn, Sylva, I. iv. § 8. I have frequently doubted whether it [the Elm-tree] be a pure Indigene or Translatitious.
1692. Washington, trans. Milton’s Def. Pop., vii. A delegated translatitious Majesty we allow, but that Majesty does chiefly and primarily reside in him, you can no more prove, than you can, that Power and Authority does.
2. Transferred in meaning; metaphorical; tralatitious.
1637. J. Williams, Holy Table, 77. The translatitious and borrowed … appellation of that holy utensill.
1673. O. Walker, Educ., II. i. 228. It appears sometimes under a Metaphor, or some other translatitious expression.
Hence † Translatitiously adv., traditionally, by custom derived from others.
1666. J. Fraser, Polichron. (S.H.S.), 2. Translatitiously both in England and Low Countries of Scotland, we, by an inveterat custome derived from thence, doe say as yet Anderson, Jameson, Watson, Williamson, etc.
