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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transport \Trans*port"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Transported}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Transporting}.] [F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See {Port} bearing, demeanor.]
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. --Hakluyt.
2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
[They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. --Milton.
We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. --South.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transporting \Trans*port"ing\, adjective That transports; fig., ravishing.
Your transporting chords ring out. --Keble.
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