transpire

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRANSPI'RE, verb transitive [Latin transpiro; trans and spiro.] To emit through the pores of the skin; to send off in vapor. TRANSPI'RE, verb intransitive To be emitted through the pores of the skin; to exhale; to pass off in insensible perspiration; as, fluids transpire from the human body. 1. To escape from secrecy; to become public. The proceedings of the council have not yet transpired. 2. To happen or come to pass.
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