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Transcend   /trænsˈɛnd/   Listen
verb
Transcend  v. t.  (past & past part. transcended; pres. part. transcending)  
1.
To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.
2.
To pass over; to go beyond; to exceed. "Such popes as shall transcend their limits."
3.
To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed. "How much her worth transcended all her kind."


Transcend  v. i.  
1.
To climb; to mount. (Obs.)
2.
To be transcendent; to excel. (R.)





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"Transcend" Quotes from Famous Books



... schools, excluding from its pages whatever differs from the prevalent scientific dogmatism, and while denouncing the dogmatism of theology, exhibiting itself a dogmatism equally blind, unreasoning and regardless of facts. Experimental demonstrations and scientific facts, which transcend the limits of their arbitrary theories, receive as little attention from the dogmatists trained in medical schools, as they would from a ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 - Volume 1, Number 12 • Various
... conversation, replied, "Whether it arises from a too early taxing of her powers of song, or whether the fault is Nature's—enough, Antonia labours under an organic failure in the chest, while it is from it too that her voice derives its wonderful power and its singular timbre, which I might almost say transcend the limits of human capabilities of song. But it bears the announcement of her early death; for, if she continues to sing, I wouldn't give her at the most more than six months longer to live." Krespel's ...
— Weird Tales. Vol. I • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... and you who have read your Arabian Nights, and stories of magicians and their doings, will have to own that our piece of dull glass will grow into a power that shall transcend infinitely anything the imagination of any storyteller ever invented. Now, what do you say? for I must ...
— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn
... even if the pitch as written is given. It may not be desirable to sing in one key music that is read in another, but it certainly is less objectionable in every way than is an unsafe use of the voice. The correct use of the voice must transcend all considerations in vocal music, and no sort of practice which misuses the vocal organs can be excused ...
— The Child-Voice in Singing • Francis E. Howard
... Preface to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. "Our reason ... is always troubled with questions which cannot be ignored, because they spring from the very nature of reason, and which cannot be answered, because they transcend the ...
— Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot


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