Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.