- 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.
Transcribe, v. a. Copy, write a copy of.
Transcriber, n. Copier, copyist.
Transcript, n.
- 1. Written copy, transcription, rescript.
- 2. Copy, imitation.