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transcend, v.|trɑːnˈsɛnd, træn-|
Also 5–6 -send(e, (6 transsend).
[ad. L. tran(s)scend-ĕre to climb over or beyond, surmount, f. trans- + scand-ĕre to climb. So OF. transcender, -scendre (14th c.).]
†1. trans. To pass over or go beyond (a physical obstacle or limit); to climb or get over the top of (a wall, mountain, etc.). Obs.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge ii. 1461 That we may transcende this ryuer safe and sure. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 251 Gif ony Pichtis transcendit this dike to be punist na les than thay had offendit aganis the majeste of Romanis. 1602W. Fulbecke Pandectes 4 In haruest he [the sun] transcendeth the other line of the æquator and so being farre remoued from vs causeth winter. 1615G. Sandys Trav. iv. 254 Mountaines not to be transcended without much difficulty. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. iv. 161, I have nimble Wings which can Transcend the Polar Height.
2. To pass or extend beyond or above (a non-physical limit); to go beyond the limits of (something immaterial); to exceed.
a1340Hampole Psalter lx. 6 Þai ere a day þat contenys and transcendis þe warldis of all generaciouns. 1534Whitinton Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 45 They without doubt transende the due bonde of measure. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 10 It transsendith the knowledge of man. 1643Baker Chron., Hen. VI 75 He had transcended his Commission. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. i. §5 Infinity transcends our capacity of apprehension. 1713Young Last Day i. 48 'Twill raise thy wonder, but transcend thy praise. 1805Foster Ess. iv. iii. 161 A genius almost transcending human nature. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. xvii. §81 Unable as we are to transcend consciousness. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 124 Ideas..derived from external objects as well as transcending them.
b. Theol. To be above and independent of: esp. said of the Deity in relation to the universe; see transcendence 1 b.
1898Illingworth Divine Immanence iii. 71 It is through this power of self-consciousness..that spirit transcends matter. Ibid. 72 The divine presence..will be the presence of a spirit, which infinitely transcends the material order, yet sustains and indwells it the while. 1907― Doctr. Trinity x. 196 On the other hand, we may..think of God as dwelling in the universe, without in any way transcending it. This means pantheism of one kind or another.
†c. intr. To go beyond, go farther. Obs. rare—1.
1629Parkinson Paradisi (1904) 529 Hauing thus furnished you out a Kitchen Garden..let me a little transcend, and..furnish them with some few other herbes.
3. trans. To go beyond in some respect, quality, or attribute; to rise above, surpass, excel, exceed.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 8 In sighte transendyng alle erthely creatures. a1529Skelton Dethe Erle Northumbld. 144 Transendyng far myne homly Muse. 1615G. Sandys Trav. i. 7 They imitate the Italians, but transcend them in their revenges. 1679Penn Addr. Prot. ii. i. (1692) 59 The Roman Church hath chiefly transcended other Societies in these Errors. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. vi. 222 Thy merits..far transcend them all. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. ii. 191 The Poles also..strive to transcend one another in civility. 1866R. M. Ferguson Electr. (1870) 11 Electro-magnets far transcend permanent magnets in power.
†4. intr. To ascend, go up, rise; to pass upward or onward. Also fig. Obs.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 190 Begyn we shall At the Cytee of Chester..And so transcendynge vp towarde Shrewysbury. a1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 604 Bot quhen sic folk abone thair stait transcend. 1596Sir J. Davies Orchestra cxii, Shee wheeles about, and ere the daunce doth end, Into her former place shee doth transcend. 1613Heywood Silver Age iii. i. Wks. 1874 III. 135 Thy flowers thou canst not spare, thy bosome lend, On which to rest whil'st Phœbus doth transcend.
†b. trans. To ascend, to mount into. Obs. rare.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. ii, It will be thought a thing ridiculous..that any poet..should, with decorum, transcend Cæsars chair.
5. intr. To be transcendent; to excel. arch.
1635Swan Spec. M. vii. §3 (1643) 344 So one mans knowledge..transcends not seldome above the rest. a1720Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) I. 260, I see no such distinction, nor wherein Man so transcends, except in arrogance. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxiii, ‘Thou art a mad knave’, said the Captain, ‘but thy plan transcends!’
†6. trans. To cause to ascend or rise; to lift, elevate. Obs. rare.
1635Heywood Hierarch. viii. 530 To that People thou a Law hast giv'n, Which from grosse earth transcendeth them to heav'n. |