Transcend

tran-send′, v.t. to rise above: to surmount: to surpa : to exceed.— ns. Transcen′dence , Transcen′dency .— adjs. Transcen′dent , transcending: superior or supreme in excellence: surpa ing others: as applicable to being , relating to the absolute, transcending all limitation—as applicable to knowledge , pertaining to what transcends experience, being given à prior i : beyond human knowledge: abstrusely speculative, fantastic; Transcenden′tal , transcending: supereminent, surpa ing others: concerned with what is independent of experience: vague.— v.t. Transcenden′talise .— ns. Transcenden′talism , the investigation of what is à prior i in human knowledge, or independent of experience: that which is vague and illusive in philosophy: the American reaction against Puritan prejudices, humdrum orthodoxy, old-fashioned metaphysics, materialistic philistinism, and materialism—best a ociated with the name of R. W. Emerson (1803-82); Transcenden′talist .— advs. Transcenden′tally ; Transcen′dently .— n. Transcen′dentne . [L. trans , beyond, scandĕre , to climb.]