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transhuman, a.|trɑːnsˈhjuːmən, træns-, -nz-|
[f. trans- 4 + human; after It. trasumanar in Dante.]
Beyond the human; superhuman. So transˈhumanate [It. Dante trasumanar, Florio tra(n)shumanare], transˈhumanize vbs., trans. to make transhuman; transhumaˈnation [Florio tra(n)s(h)umanatione], a making or becoming transhuman.
1812Cary Dante, Parad. i. 68 Words may not tell of that transhuman change [orig. l. 70 trasumanar significar per verba Non si porio]. 1841Gallenga Italy i. (1848) I. 135 Dante's contact with God was trans-humanating. 1847Oxf. to Rome (ed. 2) 215 A transhumanation takes place. 1872Lowell Dante Prose Wks. 1890 IV. 168 Souls..trans⁓humanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. 1885A. J. Butler Parad. of Dante i. 70 To signify in words transhumanation were impossible. 1892Norton Dante's Parad. i. 4 Transhumanizing cannot be signified in words. 1936E. Underhill Worship xii. 251 Gazing on the Saints in their manifest humanity, their heroic virtue and ‘spiritual persuasiveness’, he shares their trans-human experience. 1957Economist 9 Nov. (Suppl.) 12/1 This intensification of life—reaching towards a ‘transhuman’ level. 1968S. Rosen in PN Rev. (1979) No. 10. 15/2 We cannot return..to Greek, Jewish, Christian, or any other trans-human gods, whose meaning has been effectively destroyed by the decay of the values they represented. |