[n. of action from TRANSPLANT v.: cf. plantation. So F. transplantation (16th c.).]
I. The action of transplanting.
1. The removing of a plant from one place or soil and planting it in another.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XVII. x. I. 510. Neither need they any remoouing or transplantation at all.
1764. Museum Rust., IV. 38. The culture of lucerne by transplantation.
1796. C. Marshall, Garden., xviii. (1813), 296. In all transplantations, it is proper to shorten some of the roots.
1856. Delamer, Fl. Gard. (1861), 25. Take them up for division and transplantation every fourth summer at longest.
2. Transference or removal from one place to another; transportation; esp. the removal of people from one country and settling of them in another.
1606. in Calr. S. P., Irel., 551. The transportation and transplantation of the Grames and other[s] … into the realm of Ireland.
1614. Purchas, Pilgrimage, IV. viii. (ed. 2), 385. Those which haue beene here seated by the transplantations of Tamerlane and Ismael … out of other Countries.
1625. Gill, Sacr. Philos., I. 96. Their foolish thoughts concerning the transplantation of soules.
1633. in Row, Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.), 360. That all such oaths and subscriptions at ministers entrie or transplantation be discharged.
1720. Quincy, trans. Hodges’ Loimologia, 80. The Transplantation of the Plague from Turkey to Holland.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., II. 927/2. The Gnostics taught a transplantation of the highest order … into the pleroma.
3. The pretended magical cure of disease by causing it to pass to another person, or to an animal or plant. Obs. or Hist.
1655. S. Boulton (title), Medicina Magica … containing the general Cures of all Infirmities, by way of Transplantation.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. V. xi. 227. An Example of a most violent pain of the Arme, removed by Transplantation.
1730. Bailey (folio), Transplantation by Approximation (in Nat. Mag.) which is more properly called Approximation, as when a Whitlow is upon a Finger, and is cured by rubbing a Cat’s Ear, which is supposed to receive the Pain.
1854–67. C. A. Harris, Dict. Med. Terminol., Transplantation,… a pretended method of curing diseases by making them pass from one person to another.
4. Surg. The operation of transferring an organ or a portion of tissue from one part of the body, or from one person or animal, to another.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 239. Besides those examples that are seen in the transplantation of the teeth, it must be confessed that instances of reunion among parts which had been entirely separated are very rare in the human body.
1881. in Philad. Record, No. 3472. 2. The object aimed at was nothing less than the transplantation of bone.
1890. Billings, Med. Dict., Transplantation, removal of a portion of living tissue from its normal position, and uniting it with living tissue in another place, in order to repair a defect or lessen deformity.
1909. Westm. Gaz., 5 July, 6/3. The operation of kidney transplantation.
II. 5. That which has been transplanted; a transplanted company or body.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., vii. (1642), 467. Salmanassar brought Colonies, and transplantations of mixed people from the countries beyond Euphrates.
1805. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 236. He would by propagating and sheltering the new transplantations, have given a vernal … luxuriance to the appearance of the whole surrounding growth.
