transpare

English

Etymology

Verb

transpare (third-person singular simple present transpares, present participle transparing, simple past and past participle transpared)

(obsolete) To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something.
- c. 1604, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Sonnet LXXIII
  Oft haue I wish'd whilst in this state I was, That th'alablaster bulwarke might transpare

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “transpare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

trānspārē

second-person singular present active imperative of trānspāreō

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