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▪ I. transgress, n. rare. ? Obs.|ˈtrɑːnsgrɛs, ˈtræns-, -nz-|
[ad. L. transgress-us a passing over (u-stem), f. L. transgredī: see next. Cf. OF. transgres, 15th c. in Godef. (perh. the immediate source).]
Transgression, trespass.
1578in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 196 There is na sanct may saif your saule Fra the transgres. 1624Heywood Gunaik. ii. 73 There be many errors, excesses, and transgresses. c1640[Shirley] Capt. Underwit v. ii, Well, sir, though your transgresse deserve no pardon, Yet I am charitable upon Condition. 1839Reade Deluge 112, I heard a Voice that spake within, And said such transgress was a sin.
▪ II. transgress, v.|trɑːnsˈgrɛs, træns-, -nz-|
Also 6–7 trans(e)gresse.
[app. a. F. transgresser (14th c. in Godef. Compl.), f. L. transgress-, ppl. stem of transgredī to step across, f. trans across + gradī to step.]
1. a. trans. To go beyond the bounds or limits prescribed by (a law, command, etc.); to break, violate, infringe, contravene, trespass against.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (1531) 98 b, So they transgresse & breke the commaundement of god. 1550Crowley Epigr. 757 Wyl ye transegresse my lawes? 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 217 That he should suffer for transgressing them⁓perours commaundement. 1660Trial Regic. 126 That he that knew the Law so well should so much transgresse it. 1713Steele Englishman No. 50. 324 Too great an Inclination one way betrayed him to transgress the Rules of Charity. 1829Scott Anne of G. xxii, Other points of etiquette were transgressed in their turn, after the repast was over. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. xxxvii. 32 Where a statute passed by a State legislature is alleged to transgress the Constitution of the State.
b. absol., or intr. (const. against): To break a law or command; to trespass, offend, sin.
1526Tindale 2 John 9 Whosoever transgresseth and bydeth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. 1535Coverdale Neh. i. 8 Yf ye transgresse, then wil I scater you abrode amonge the nacions. 1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 260, I would not marry her, though she were indowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgrest. a1699A. Halkett Autobiog. (1875) 12, I did not transgrese against my Mother. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 50 That the two states should unite against a third which transgressed, was a great source of security.
†c. trans. To offend against (a person); to disobey. Obs. rare.
a1619Fletcher Bonduca iv. ii, I never Blasphemed 'em, uncle, nor transgrest my parents. a1625― Wom. Pleased iii. i, You are too Royal to me; To me that have so foolishly transgress'd you.
2. a. trans. (a) To go or pass beyond (any limit or bounds).
a1619[see transgressed below]. 1641Wilkins Math. Magick ii. vi. (1648) 197 He advises that we should not..transgresse the bounds of nature. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 322 Nor have these limits of human life been less transgresst by Men..than they have by women. a1700Dryden Ovid's Metam. xv. Pythag. Philos. 669 Hard mouthed coursers..Apt to run riot, and transgress the goal. 1829Lytton Devereux i. i, A man never known before to transgress the very slowest of all possible walks.
(b) spec. in Geol. Of the sea: to spread over (the land). Cf. transgression 2.
1909Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XX. 479 There are periodic recurrences of extensive emergences of the continents and..each one is later invaded or transgressed by continental seas. 1978Nature 13 July 131/1 The down faulted and transgressed blocks on Fig. 1 have been numbered to show the sequence and time when the block was first transgressed.
†b. intr. (a) To go beyond limits; to trespass (on). (b) To digress. Obs.
1662Gerbier Princ. 22, I shall not spend time, and transgresse on the Readers patience, concerning the making of Clay, and burning of Bricks. 1689tr. Buchanan's De Jure Regni apud Scotos 14 Let us return from whence we have transgressed.
Hence transgressed |-ˈgrɛst| ppl. a. (in quot. a 1619, that has gone beyond ordinary limits, excessive); transˈgressing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1535Coverdale Josh. xxii. 22 Yf this be a transgressynge or trespacynge agaynst the Lorde. 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue b ij, She shall be guiltles of the transgressing. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. ii. §1 (1622) 198 So large.., and transgrest in her proportion. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. xiv. §8. 217 Any one who hath suffered the punishment of the transgressed Law. a1812McLean Comm. Hebr. (1847) I. 329 The punishment inflicted on his transgressing seed. 1907Blackw. Mag. Feb. 177/1 He brought suits against transgressing shipmasters. 1978[see above sense 2 a (b)]. |