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Literary notes about transact (AI summary)

The word “transact” has been employed in literature to convey the formal act of conducting affairs or business, often with a distinctly official or deliberate tone. In many classic texts, such as the King James Bible ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]), “transact” appears as a marker of ritualized or sanctioned proceedings, emphasizing its longstanding association with formality. At the same time, novelistic works like The Count of Monte Cristo ([6], [7], [8], [9]) and Great Expectations ([10], [11]) use the term to denote both literal business dealings and metaphorical exchanges, reflecting complex human interactions and stratified social relations. Moreover, historical and scholarly writings, exemplified by the Declaration of Independence ([12], [13], [14]) and even works by Charles Darwin ([15], [16], [17]), reveal how “transact” has been adapted in various registers—from legal and administrative contexts to nuanced interpersonal dynamics—thereby underscoring its versatility and persistence in the literary lexicon.
  1. 'Transact.
    — from The King James Version of the Bible
  2. Transact.,' vol. vi. 1826, p.
    — from The King James Version of the Bible
  3. 'Transact.
    — from The King James Version of the Bible
  4. 'Transact.
    — from The King James Version of the Bible
  5. 'Transact.
    — from The King James Version of the Bible
  6. “How so?” “By making me apply to the servants, when I want to transact business with you alone.”
    — from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  7. But you must let me make my observations, or the Frenchman will transact his business without my knowing the sum.”
    — from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  8. He thought it would be better to transact business with his old acquaintance, so he sent for Peppino.
    — from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  9. “This is how I transact business,” said Danglars.
    — from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  10. I have unusual business to transact with you, and I commence by explaining that it is not of my originating.
    — from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  11. But in the general tumbling up of the family, his tumbling out in life somewhere, was a thing to transact itself somehow.
    — from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  12. Chepe , sb. Cheapside, S3, P. Chepen , v. to transact business, buy or sell, MD, S; chepet , pp. , S.—AS.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  13. Transact.,' 1787, p. 353).
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  14. Transact.,' 1789, p. 160) apparently was sixty-three days, for she received the dog more than once.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  15. Note 1014 ( return ) [ Transact.
    — from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
  16. Transact.
    — from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
  17. Transact.
    — from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

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