transcension

English

Etymology

See transcend.

Noun

transcension (plural transcensions)

1. (obsolete) The act of transcending, or surpassing.
   • c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:

     Many a shady hill,
     And many an echoing valley; many a field
     Pleasant and wishful did his passage yield
     Their safe transcension.

2. (obsolete) The act of passing over something.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “transcension”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)