释义 |
transˈnormal, a. [f. trans- 4 + normal.] Outside the bounds of the normal; beyond or above the normal.
1853Max Müller in C. Bunsen Outl. Philos. Univ. Hist. (1854) I. 282 Pott adds a fourth class, which he calls transnormal or incorporative, i.e. the polysynthetic American dialects. 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. (1865) 53 The ‘transnormal’ character of these tongues only proves that they are the work of minds incapable of all subtile analysis. 1875A. W. Ward Eng. Dram. Lit. Introd. 23 The distinctive features which already his [Euripides'] quickwitted contemporaries found mirrored in his transnormal productions. |