transgress (transgres)

[ 6431 "Tis time my hard-mouth'd coursers to control, Apt to run riot, and transgre the goal. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., xv. 669. The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgre his path they would punish him. Emerson , Compensation. Hence-2. To overpa , as some law or rule prescribed; break or violate; infringe. It is evident that Aristotle transgre ed the rule of his Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, i. 55. Whilst men continue social units, they cannot transgre the life principle of society without disastrous conH. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 488. sequences. 3t. To offend against (a person); disobey; thwart; cro ; vex. own ethics. I never Blasphem'd 'em, uncle, nor transgre 'd my parents. Fletcher , Bonduc a, iv. 2. =Syn. 2. Infringe upon , Encroach upon , etc. (see trespa , v. i.), pa , transcend, overstep, contravene. II. in trans. To offend by violating a law; sin. The troubler of Israel, who transgre ed in the thing ac1 Chron. ii. 7. cursed. transiliency When this lantern was attempted to be landed here for the purpose of transhipment to Monte video. Morning Chronicle , Dec. 2, 1719. ( Jodrell .) trans human (trans-human), a. [ trans- + hu man .] More than human; superhuman. [Rare.] Words may not tell of that trans human change. Cary, tr. of Dante's Purgatory, i. 68. trans humanize (trans-hūman-iz), v. t. [ Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, trans humanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 43. transience (tran's hens), n. [ t ) + -ce.] Transientne ; also, that which is transient or fleeting. Man is a being of high aspirations, "looking before and after," whose "thoughts wander through eternity," disclaiming alliance with transience and decay; existing but in the future and the past. Shelley, in Dowden, I. 332. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with transiency (tran' (tran's hen-si), n. [As transience all Adam had left him before he transgre ed. Shak., Much Ado, ii. 1, 260. (see-cy).] Same as transience . Poor sickly transiencies that we are, coveting we know not what. Carlyle , Reminiscences, I. 251. transient (tran's hent), a . and n. [ transire , go over, pa over, pa through, trans , over, + ire , go: see iter1 . Cf. ambient and transeunt.] I. a. 1. Pa ing acro , as from one thing or person to another; communicated.