† transcursionn.
Obsolete.
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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [noun]
leadinga1300
passagec1300
overstyinga1382
overpassingc1384
transita1500
pass1602
transitation1605
transcursion1624
transcent1626
transmeation1630
pertransition1653
tranation1654
transcurrence1656
coming1726
traversion1838
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > journey across or through
overpassingc1384
passagea1393
transpassage1603
transcursion1624
trajet1741
traject1774
percurration1785
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 307 Such notes as I have taken in my forraigne transcursions or abodes.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum 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.
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) ii. xii. §17 84 To wonder at the transcursion of Comets.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 95 The transcursion of Italians hither, added much to the discovery of the Papal abominations.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia xxxv. 166 To impede, for the greatest part, the transcursion of the Air.
2. figurative. A running through a subject in discourse.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a discourse or lecture
spellc888
predicationa1325
lessonc1330
collation1417
sermocination1514
discourse1533
lecture1536
descant1567
peroration1607
homilya1616
sermona1616
exercitation1632
transcursion1641
exhortatory1656
by-discourse1660
screed1748
purlicue1825
rhesis1840
talk1859
lecturette1867
chalk talk1881
pi-jaw1896
1641 H. L'Estrange Gods Sabbath 55 Not to expatiate too farre in collaterall transcursions.
1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 41 Having made a short transcursion through the Government of the City of London.
3. Passage, lapse (of time).
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the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time
process1357
concoursec1400
coursec1460
successionc1485
passing-by1523
by-passing1526
slacka1533
continuancea1552
race1565
prolapse1585
current1587
decurse1593
passage1596
drifting1610
flux1612
effluxion1621
transcursion1622
decursion1629
devolution1629
progression1646
efflux1647
preterition1647
processus1648
decurrence1659
progress1664
fluxation1710
elapsing1720
currency1726
lapse1758
elapse1793
time-lapse1864
wearing1876
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 44 Wisedome is the Daughter of Experience, which is gotten by the transcursion of Time.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 288 Nor was transcursion of time needfull in this case.
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