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† transˈcursion Obs.
[ad. late L. transcursiōn-em, n. of action f. transcurrĕre to run across.]
1. The action of running or passing across or through; a going or moving through, transition, penetration; also, a journey or passage through a country, across the sea, etc.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 307 Such notes as I have taken in my forraigne transcursions or abodes. 1626Bacon Sylva x. Pref., In a Living Creature..the Sense, and the Affects of any one Part of the Body, instantly make a Transcursion thorowout the whole Body. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. xii. §17 (1712) 84 To wonder at the transcursion of Comets. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. x. vi. §6 The transcursion of Italians hither, added much to the discovery of the Papal abominations. 1665Hooke Microgr. xxxv. 166 To impede, for the greatest part, the transcursion of the Air.
2. fig. A running through a subject in discourse.
1641H. L'Estrange God's Sabbath 55 Not to expatiate too farre in collaterall transcursions. 1657Howell Londinop. 41 Having made a short transcursion through the Government of the City of London.
3. Passage, lapse (of time).
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 44 Wisedome is the Daughter of Experience, which is gotten by the transcursion of Time. Ibid. 288 Nor was transcursion of time needfull in this case. |