Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRANS-ACT'OR, n.

One who performs or conducts any business. Derham.

TRANS-AL'PINE, a. [L. trans, beyond, and Alpine, of the Alps.]

Lying or being beyond the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west of the Alps; as, Transalpine Gaul; opposed to Cisalpine.

TRANS-AN'I-MATE, v.t. [trans and animate.]

To animate by the conveyance of a soul to another body. King.

TRANS-AN'I-MA-TED, pp.

Animated by the conveyance of the soul from one body to another.

TRANS-AN-I-MA'TION, n. [L. trans and anima.]

Conveyance of the soul from one body to another; transmigration. Brown. [The latter is the word generally used.]

TRANS-AT-LAN'TIC, a. [L. trans, beyond, and Atlantic.]

Lying or being beyond the Atlantic. When used by a person in Europe or Africa, transatlantic signifies being in America; when by a person in America, it denotes being or lying in Europe or Africa. We apply it chiefly to something in Europe.

TRANS-CEND', v.i.

To climb. [Not in use.] Brown.

TRANS-CEND', v.t. [L. transcendo; trans and scando, to climb.]

1. To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.
2. To pass over; to go beyond. It is a dangerous opinion to such hopes as shall transcend their limits. Bacon.
3. To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed. How much her worth transcended all her kind. Dryden.

TRANS-CEND'ED, pp.

Overpassed; surpassed; exceeded.

TRANS-CEND'ENCE, or TRANS-CEND'EN-CY, n.

1. Superior excellence; supereminence.
2. Elevation above truth; exaggeration. Bacon.

TRANS-CEND'ENT, a. [L. transcendens.]

Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor. Cloth'd with transcendent brightness. Milton.

TRANS-CEND-ENT'AL, a.

Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities. Grew. Transcendental quantities, among geometricians, are indeterminate ones, or such as can not be expressed or fixed to any constant equation. Transcendental curve, is such as can not be defined by any algebraic equation, or of which, when it is expressed by an equation, one of the terms is a variable quantity. Cyc.

TRANS-CEND-ENT'AL-ISM, n.

The doctrine of aiming at or arriving at supereminent excellence. Ed. Rev.

TRANS-CEND-ENT'AL-IST, n.

One who believes in transcendentalism.

TRANS-CEND-ENT'AL-LY, adv.

In a transcendental manner.

TRANS-CEND'ENT-LY, adv.

Very excellently; supereminently; by way of eminence. The law of Christianity is eminently and transcendently called the word of truth. South.

TRANS-CEND'ENT-NESS, n.

Superior or unusual excellence.

TRANS-CEND'ING, ppr.

Rising above; surmounting; surpassing.

TRANS'CO-LATE, v.t. [L. trans and colo, to strain.]

To strain; to cause to pass through a sieve or colander. Harvey.

TRANS-CO-LA'TING, ppr.

Straining through a sieve.

TRAN-SCRIBE, v.t. [L. transcribo; trans, over, and scribo, to write.]

To copy; to write over again or in the same words; to write a copy of any thing; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

TRAN-SCRIB-ED, pp.

Copied.

TRAN-SCRIB-ER, n.

A copier; one who writes from a copy. Addison.

TRAN-SCRIB-ING, ppr.

Writing from a copy; writing a copy.

TRAN'SCRIPT, n. [L. transcriptum.]

1. A copy; a writing made from and according to an original; a writing or composition consisting of the same words with the original. The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript, not an original. South.
2. A copy of any kind. The Roman learning was a transcript of the Grecian. Glanville.