8. To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed.
How much her worth transcended all her kind.
Dryden. Transcend
(Tran*scend") v. i.
1. To climb; to mount. [Obs.]
2. To be transcendent; to excel. [R.]
Transcendence
(Tran*scend"ence Tran*scend"en*cy) (- en*sy),[Cf. L. transcendentia, F. transcendance.]
1. The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence.
The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity at its controlling principle.
A. V. G.
Allen. 2. Elevation above truth; exaggeration. [Obs.]
"Where transcendencies are more allowed."
Bacon. 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.
Transcendent
(Tran*scend"ent), n. That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
Transcendental
(Tran`scen*den"tal) a. [Cf. F. transcendantal, G. transcendental.]
1. Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities.
2. (Philos.) In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard
to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends
empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies
the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience,
transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.
3. Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction.
In mathematics, a quantity is said to be transcendental relative to another quantity when it is expressed
as a transcendental function of the latter; thus, ax, 102x, log x, sin x, tan x, etc., are transcendental
relative to x.
Transcendental curve (Math.), a curve in which one ordinate is a transcendental function of the other.
— Transcendental equation (Math.), an equation into which a transcendental function of one of the
unknown or variable quantities enters. — Transcendental function. (Math.) See under Function.
Syn. — Transcendental, Empirical. These terms, with the corresponding nouns, transcendentalism
and empiricism, are of comparatively recent origin. Empirical refers to knowledge which is gained by
the experience of actual phenomena, without reference to the principles or laws to which they are to
