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T — Trait to Travail (Part 3 of 11)

    2. Surmount, rise above.
    3. Surpass, excel, outstrip, overtop, outdo, exceed, outvie, be superior.

Transcendence, Transcendency, n. Supereminence, superior excellence, marked superiority.

Transcendent, a.

    1. Pre-eminent, surpassing, supereminent, unequalled, unparalleled, peerless, unrivalled, inimitable, very superior, consummate, unsurpassed, supreme in excellence.
    2. Transcendental, above or dominating the (Aristotelian) categories.
    3. Transcending the scope of knowledge, supersensible, metempirical, noumenal, transcending the limits of possible experience, beyond the range of reason or of the transcendental (or a priori) principles of knowledge.

Transcendental, a.

    1. Supereminent, transcendent, pre-eminent, surpassing, supreme, consummate.
    2. (Colloq.) Obscure, dark, vague, indefinite, speculative, mystic, mystical, fantastic, filmy, thin, abstruse, indistinct, rarefied, attenuated, unreal, intangible, impalpable, recondite.
    3. (Math.) Non-algebraic, extra-algebraic, involving other than the four fundamental operations.
    4. (Met.) a. A priori, pure, organic, primordial, original, aboriginal, formal, formative, constitutive, relating to form as distinguished from matter, non-empirical.
b. Synthetical, combinative, unitive, unifying, unificatory, colligative, constructive of system in experience, warranting inference from the past to the future. c. Non-transcendent, immanent, limited to experience, applicable to phenomena alone, inapplicable to the absolute, to noumena, to the supersensible, or to things in themselves.

Transcribe, v. a. Copy, write a copy of.

Transcriber, n. Copier, copyist.

Transcript, n.

    1. Written copy, transcription, rescript.
    2. Copy, imitation.