transcend

English

Etymology

From Old French transcender, Latin transcendere (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”), from trans (“over”) + scandere (“to climb”); see scan; compare ascend, descend.

Verb

transcend (third-person singular simple present transcends, present participle transcending, simple past and past participle transcended)

1. (transitive) to pass beyond the limits of something.
2. (transitive) to surpass something in intensity or power; to excel.
3. (obsolete) To climb; to mount.

Derived terms

• transcendence
• transcendency
• transcendent
• transcendental
• transcendentalism
• transcendentalist
• transcendentally
• transcending

Translations

to pass beyond the limits of something

• Czech: překonat (cs)
• Dutch: overstijgen (nl)
• Finnish: ylittää (fi)

• French: transcender (fr)
• Latin: supero (la)
• Russian: переступать (ru) (perestupatʹ) пределы (ru) (perestupát’ predély)

to surpass something in intensity or power; to excel

• Finnish: ylittää (fi)

• Russian: превосходить (ru) (prevosxodít’), превышать (ru) (prevyšát’)

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• Catalan: trascendir
• Spanish: trascender

External links

• transcend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• transcend in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911