ppl. a. [f. TRANSPORT v. + -ED1.]
1. Conveyed from one place to another.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., I. II. x. 26. There is but little to be said … of Transported Earth,… it is a Novelty our Age has introduc’d in Gard’ning.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 193. At the base of such hollow ravines was seen a wide and deep mass of ruins, consisting of transported earth, gravel, rocks, and trees.
b. Compulsorily carried to a distant country.
1728. Gay, Polly, I. (1777), 18. Since he came over [to America] he married a transported slave.
1743. Bulkeley & Cummins, Voy. S. Seas, 20. Those Grandees … in a few Minutes look’d like a Parcel of transported felons.
1890. Daily News, 18 Sept., 6/1. The transported of 1851 and of 1871 are looked upon as revolutionists who only got what they deserved.
2. ‘Carried away’ by excitement or vehement emotion; excited beyond self-control; enraptured.
1600. E. Blount, trans. Conestaggio, 247. Troublesome and transported subiects.
1685. Boyle, Enq. Notion Nat., v. 173. Like a passionate and transported thing, oppose it,… with such blind violence.
1746–7. Hervey, Medit. (1818), 29. The fondness of thy transported husband.
1874. Motley, Barneveld, I. ii. 177. He had never seen a man so desperate, so transported.
Hence Transportedly adv., in a transported manner, in a transport; Transportedness.
1652. Loveday, trans. Calprenede’s Cassandra, I. 56. [She] *transportedly cryed out [etc.].
1713. C’tess Winchelsea, Misc. Poems, 27. Assemble here, you watry Race, Transportedly he cries.
1804. J. Collins, Scripscrap., 28. The thief a new Region transportedly hails.
c. 1656. Bp. Hall, Rem. Wks. (1660), 420. Titular respects which those … can weild without any such taint or suspicion of *transportedness.
