transgressive (transgresiv)

[ Permitted unto his proper principles, Adam perhaps would have sinned without the suggestion of Satan, and from the transgre ive infirmities of himself might have erred alone, as well as the angels before him. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., i. 10. transgre ively (trans-gres'iv-li), adv. 1. In a transgre ive manner; by transgre ing. 2. In geol., unconformably. Let us suppose, for example, that a mountain range consists of upraised Lower Silurian rocks, upon the upturned and denuded edges of which the Carboniferous Limestone lies transgre ively. A. Geikie, Encyc. Brit., X. 371.