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tran⋅scend⋅ent

  [tran-sen-duhnt]
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–adjective
1. going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
2. superior or supreme.
3. Theology. (of the Deity) transcending the universe, time, etc. Compare immanent (def. 3).
4. Philosophy.
a. Scholasticism. above all possible modes of the infinite.
b. Kantianism. transcending experience; not realizable in human experience. Compare transcendental (defs. 5a, c).
c. (in modern realism) referred to, but beyond, direct apprehension; outside consciousness.
–noun Mathematics.
5. a transcendental function.
Origin:
1575–85; < L trānscendent- (s. of trānscendēns), prp. of trānscendere. See transcend, -ent

Related forms:
tran⋅scend⋅ent⋅ly, adverb
tran⋅scend⋅ent⋅ness, noun
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tran·scen·dent   (trān-sěn'dənt)   
adj.  
  1. Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
  2. Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor" (National Review).
  3. Philosophy
    1. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
    2. In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
  4. Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.
tran·scen'dence, tran·scen'den·cy n., tran·scen'dent·ly adv.
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Transcendent

Tran*scend"ent\, a. [L. transcendens, -entis, p. pr. of transcendere to transcend: cf. F. transcendant, G. transcendent.]

1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.

Clothed with transcendent brightness. --Milton.

2. (Kantian Philos.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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