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Quotation dates: 1709, 1811-1904, 1964
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TRANSLATE, v. Sc. Church usage: to remove a minister from one pastoral charge to another. Hence translation, the act or procedure of so doing. Cf. Transport.Sc. 1709 W. Steuart Collections i. ii. § 1:
Transportation or translation, is an authoritative loosing of a minister's relation to one charge, and a making up of that same relation betwixt him and another.Sc. 1811 Scots Mag. (July) 554:
The parish of Torryburn, vacant by the translation of Mr. Peter Cosens to the parish of Lauder.Sc. 1845 Stat. Acc.2 I. 10:
Mr Robert Farquhar, was translated from Cullen to Liberton.Lth. 1882 J. Strathesk Blinkbonny xii.:
The “Forms of Procedure” in the translation of a Scottish Presbyterian minister.Sc. 1904 R. Small Hist. U.P. Congreg. I. 503:
The Synod at his own request, and without a vote, refused to translate.Sc. 1964 Practice Ch. Scot. (Cox) 247:
Matters connected with calls, translations or settlement of ministers.
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