transcendentallyadv.
a. In a transcendental manner or degree; according to a transcendental system.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [adverb] > transcendentally
transcendentally1803
1803 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 277 Of moral duty it may be said, in like manner, that transcendentally it cannot exist.
1842 E. B. Browning Bk. Poets in Poems (1890) V. 241 Some have discovered that he [Shakspere] individualized, and some that he generalized, and some that he subtilized—almost trans~transcendentally.]
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. iii. 244 We hold that space and time are transcendentally ideal, i.e. that they have no objective validity..apart from the constitution of the sensibility through which they are apprehended.
b. = transcendently adv.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [adverb]
sovereignlyc1340
excellentlyc1400
by (an, way of) excellencec1450
transcendingly1528
exquisitely1535
precellently?1567
divinely1582
par excellence1584
pre-eminently1590
superlatively1596
surpassing1598
by (way of) eminency1608
superexcellently1615
by (way of) eminence1621
transcendently1623
surpassingly1658
exquisitively1660
par eminence1823
heavenlike1832
transcendentally1870
1870 Eng. Mech. 11 Mar. 636/2 The diamond, so transcendentally beautiful.
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