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单词 transcendent
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transcendentadj.n.

Brit. /trɑːnˈsɛnd(ə)nt/, /tranˈsɛnd(ə)nt/, U.S. /træn(t)ˈsɛndənt/
Forms: Also transcendant.
Etymology: < Latin transcendent-em, present participle of transcendĕre to transcend v. For the spelling with -ant compare French transcendant (14–15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), also ascendant, descendant.
A. adj.
1.
a. Surpassing or excelling others of its kind; going beyond the ordinary limits; pre-eminent; superior or supreme; extraordinary. Also, loosely, Eminently great or good; cf. ‘excellent’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [adjective]
sunderlyOE
noblec1330
precellentc1384
passantc1385
especialc1386
passinga1387
surmountingc1407
superlative?a1430
precelling?1435
pre-eminenta1460
outrepassed1477
divine1488
pre-excellenta1500
superexcellent1508
transcending1528
pre-ordinate1543
exceeding1552
superexcelling1554
exquisite1578
surpassingc1580
summary1587
paragon1593
transcendent1598
overmatchful1609
termless1609
overtoppinga1615
paramounta1626
overtowering1639
surpassant1654
transcendental1701
superior1711
towery1731
prize1739
supernala1817
tiptopsome1819
tip-topping1826
par excellence1839
superfine1850
towering1894
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [adjective]
excellentc1384
transcending1528
surpassingc1580
excellinga1586
overmatching1590
transcendent1598
overmatchful1609
outdoing1679
outvying1757
outbidding1830
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Trascendente, transcending, transcendent.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Transcendant, transcendant, surmounting, surpassing, exceeding.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ii. 425/1 The Popes transcendent pleasure and power, being the strongest part of the Dukes title to the Crowne.
?a1635 Good Wives Ale in B. Jonson Wks. (1925–51) VIII. 448 When shall wee meete againe and have a tast Of that transcendant liquor wee dranke last?
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 10 That transcendent Apostle [sc. Saint Paul].
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 128 Nausicaa..shone transcendent o'er the beauteous train.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xxviii. 305 Such transcendent goodness of heart.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 65 His own transcendant Genius found the rest.
1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (ed. 8) v. 48 A person of altogether transcendant greatness.
1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer vi. §13. 73 Apollo is less transcendent in intellect [than Athenè].
†b. With above, to: greatly superior to. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [adjective] > far superior
transcendent1635
1635 E. Rainbow Labour 35 Their clothings being by some degrees transcendant to needle worke even wrought with gold.
1635 W. Habington Castara (ed. 2) sig. A11v If worth be not transcendant above the title.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 286 Julian the Emperor..acknowledged besides the Sun, another Incorporeal Deity, transcendent to it.
1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 202 If a fluent Vein be shown That's transcendent to our own.
†2. Of language: Elevated above ordinary language, lofty. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > lofty or grandiloquent
magnificenta1460
statelya1525
magnifical1533
tragical1533
lofty1565
tragic1566
sublime1586
over-high1587
magnific1589
heroic1590
buskina1593
grandiloquous1593
full-mouthed1594
high-pitched1594
buskined1595
full-mouth1595
high-borne1596
altisonant1612
Roman1619
high-sounding1624
transcendent1631
magniloquent1640
loud1651
altiloquent1656
grandiloquent1656
largiloquent1656
altisonous1661
tall1670
elevate1673
grandisonous1674
sounding1683
exalted1684
grandisonant1684
grandific1727
magniloquous1727
orotund1799
superb1825
spread eagle1839
grandiose1840
magnisonanta1843
togated1868
elevated1875
mandarin1959
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §15. 212 Those other high transcendent hyperbolicall phrases of the Prophet Isay.
1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (i. 5) i. 43 In this sense this high transcendent prophesie (Isa. ix. 6, 7) is to be taken.
†3. Of an idea or conception: Transcending comprehension; hence, obscure or abstruse. Cf. metaphysical adj. 1b. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adjective]
higheOE
dighela1000
deepc1000
darkOE
starkOE
dusk?c1225
subtle1340
dimc1350
subtilea1393
covert1393
mystica1398
murka1400
cloudyc1400
hard?c1400
mistyc1400
unclearc1400
diffuse1430
abstractc1450
diffused?1456
exquisitec1460
obnubilous?a1475
obscure?a1475
covered1484
intricate?a1500
nice?a1500
perplexeda1500
difficilea1513
difficult1530
privy1532
smoky1533
secret1535
abstruse?1549
difficul1552
entangled1561
confounded1572
darksome1574
obnubilate1575
enigmatical1576
confuse1577
mysteriousa1586
Delphic1598
obfuscatea1600
enfumed1601
Delphicala1603
obstruse1604
abstracted1605
confused1611
questionable1611
inevident1614
recondite1619
cryptic1620
obfuscated1620
transcendent1624
Delphian1625
oraculous1625
enigmatic1628
recluse1629
abdite1635
undilucidated1635
clouded1641
benighted1647
oblite1650
researched1653
obnubilated1658
obscurative1664
tenebrose1677
hyperbyssal1691
condite1695
diffusive1709
profound1710
tenebricose1730
oracular1749
opaque1761
unenlightening1768
darkling1795
offuscating1798
unrecognizable1817
tough1820
abstrusive1848
obscurant1878
out-of-focus1891
unplumbable1895
inenubilable1903
non-transparent1939
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 146 These are such transcendent subtilties, if not absurdities, as any metaphysics will afford.
1635 D. Person Varieties i. 3 Metaphysicks..medleth with things transcendent and supernaturall.
1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar 31 I confesse, this Divinitie is so transcendent and Metaphysicall, that it exceeds my capacitie.
4. Philosophy.
a. Applied by the Schoolmen to predicates which by their universal application were considered to transcend the Aristotelian categories or predicaments. See B. 1a.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > Aristotelian > of elements of Aristotelianism
predicamentalc1600
transcendental1668
transcendent1706
third-man argument1801
categorical1817
prioristic1890
c1300 Duns Scotus Rep. Par. in Sent. i. viii. v. §13 Praedicata..quae dicuntur de Deo..sunt praedicata transcendentia..quidquid convenit enti antequam descendat in genera [i.e. the categories] est transcendens.]
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Transcendent,..in Logick, surpassing the Predicaments.
1872 R. G. Latham Dict. Eng. Lang. at Transcendental Transcendent is used by the scholastics and moderns, as opposed to immanent—meaning transcending the categories.
b. By Kant applied to that which transcends his own list of categories (explained as a priori conceptions of the understanding, which it necessarily employs in ordering its experience, but which have no validity outside of experience); hence, transcending or altogether outside experience; not an object of possible experience; unrealizable in human experience. (Distinguished by him from transcendental adj. 2b.)
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [adjective] > relating to transcendentalism > of Kant's transcendental philosophy
transcendental1798
transcendent1803
1803 Edinb. Rev. 1 258 Philosophy..is transcendent when..it believes that the objects of our senses exist in a manner really known to us.
1815 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. i. (1870) xii. 117 Those flights of lawless speculation, which, abandoned by all distinct consciousness, because transgressing the bounds and purposes of our intellectual faculties, are justly condemned, as transcendent.
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1250/1 Kant..draws a distinction between the transcendental and the transcendent... The transcendent..is that which regards those principles as objectively real to which Kant assigns only a subjective or formal reality, and consequently is by him regarded as beyond the limits of the human reason altogether.
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. x. 422 From the Kantian point of view both the question and the answer are transcendent. For they both involve the doctrine that the world is in space,..apart from its being known as such.
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. xiv. 523 And this synthesis is transcendent, i.e. it is a synthesis which cannot be represented as a phenomenon, or verified in sensuous experience.
1881 R. Adamson Fichte v. 112 (note) For any question or theorem which might pass beyond possible experience, Kant reserved the term transcendent.
5. Theology. Of the Deity: In His being, exalted above and distinct from the universe; having transcendence. Distinguished from immanent adj. 1.Originally often connoting the denial of Divine action or interference in mundane affairs.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > transcendent
superessentialc1450
supersubstantialc1450
transcendent1877
1877 D. Patrick in Encycl. Brit. VII. 36/1 [article Deism] Shaftesbury vigorously protests against the notion of a wholly transcendent God. Morgan more than once expresses a theory that would now be pronounced one of immanence.
1907 J. R. Illingworth Doctr. Trinity x. 194 To think of Him [God], in modern phrase, as transcendent, as above and beyond all relative and finite existence.
1907 J. R. Illingworth Doctr. Trinity x. 195 It is theoretically possible..to conceive of God as simply transcendent, or simply immanent in the world.
1911 R. Mackintosh in Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 744/1 [article Theism] God was apt to be thought of [in 18th c.] as purely transcendent, not immanent in the world.
6. Mathematics. = transcendental adj. 4.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [adjective] > not algebraic
transcendental1843
transcendent1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 287/2 Hermite first completely proved the transcendent character of e [see E n.1 6a].
B. n. [the adjective used absol.]
1. Philosophy.
†a. A predicate that transcends, or cannot be classed under, any of the Aristotelian categories or predicaments. Obsolete.Aristotle taught ( Metaph. x. 2) that being and unity were neither categories, nor fell under any one category, but could be predicated in all the categories; in Eth. Nic. he says the like of goodness. Such predicates came to be called by the Schoolmen transcendentia, ‘transcendents’, as transcending the limits of the categories. Their enumeration as six, Being, Thing, Something, One, True, Good (found first in a treatise attributed to Thomas Aquinas, but thought by Prantl ( Gesch. der Logik III. 245) to be subsequent to Duns Scotus), was in regular use down to the time of Kant.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > other elements of scholastic philosophy
transcendent1581
haecceity1635
thisness1643
indifference1660
transcendental1668
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > elements of
material cause1393
matterc1395
matter subjecta1398
predicamenta1425
quality?1537
first substance1551
predicable1551
property1551
proprium1551
transcendent1581
final cause1587
category1588
habit1588
ante-predicament?1596
postpredicament1599
entelechy1603
transumption1628
secondary1656
objective cause1668
transcendental1668
general substance1697
third man1801
thought-form1834
posterioristic universal1902
ousia1917
c1300 Duns Scotus Op. Oxon. in Sent. i. viii. iii. §19 Transcendens quodcunque nullum habet genus sub quo contineatur, sed quod ipsum sit commune ad multa inferiora.
13.. in St. Thomas Aquinas Opusc. xlii. ii. (1490) K viij/2 Sunt autem sex transcendentia: videlicet ens, res, aliquid, vnum, verum, bonum.]
1581 W. Fulke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iii. sig. Y iij b It is a transcendent, which is in all predicaments.
1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning iii. iv. 143 All Relative and Adventive condicions and Characters of Essences, which we have named Transcendents; as Multitude, Paucity, Identity, Diversity, Possible, Impossible, and such like.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 207 God is a transcendent, and is not under, nor yet within the predicament, of any part of the whole order of Nature.
1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. iii. 6 Transcendents, as, Being, Thing, One, True, Good, which by their Community exceed all the degrees of Categories.
b. transferred. A person or thing that transcends classification.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > fact of being unparalleled or unique > that which is unique > a unique thing or person
nonpareilc1500
transcendent1591
Arabian birda1616
imparallel1658
original1675
incomparable1704
unique1769
sui generis1787
oner1841
unicum1885
the only pebble on the beach1896
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth ix. f. 28 In this number the lorde Borris..is not to be reckoned, that is like a Transendent,..being the Emperors brother in law.
1593 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 267 Hope is a Transcendent, and will not easily be imprisoned, or impounded in any Predicament of auncient or moderne Perfection.
1608 Bp. J. King Serm. 5 Nov. 23 Both were transcendents not to be placed in the classes or rankes of hitherto experienced or practised wickednesse.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiii. 218 Fame falls most short in those Transcendents, which are above her Predicaments; as in Solomons wisdome.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vii. 408 Here I must set John Dudley Earl of Warwick (as a Transcendent) in a form by himself, being a competent Lawyer, (Son to a Judge) known Soldier, and able States-man, and acting against the Protector, to all these his capacities.
c. According to the Kantian philosophy: That which is altogether beyond the bounds of human cognition and thought. See A. 4b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [noun] > transcendentalism > elements of Kant's transcendental philosophy
reason1795
noumenon1796
thing in itself1798
transcendent1825
idea1848
Ding an sich1858
Grenzbegriff1893
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 315 Let X signify a Transcendent, i.e. a Cause beyond our Comprehension and not within the sphere of sensible experience.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 221 Omnify the disputed point into a transcendant, and you may defy the opponent to lay hold of it.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xi. 199 The term transcendent,..he [sc. Kant] applied to all pretended knowledge that transcended experience, and was not given in an original principle of the mind.
†2. One who or that which transcends or rises high above the ordinary rank of persons or things; a person or thing of great eminence. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing
carbunclea1350
swanc1386
phoenixc1400
diamondc1440
broocha1464
surmounterc1500
sovereign?a1513
primrose peerless1523
superlative1577
transcendent1593
Arabian birda1616
crack1637
first rate1681
peach1710
phoenicle1711
admiration1717
spanker1751
first-raterc1760
no slouch of1767
nailer1806
tip-topper1822
ripper1825
ripstaver1828
apotheosis1832
clinker1836
clipper1836
bird1839
keener1839
ripsnorter1840
beater1845
firecracker1845
pumpkin1845
screamer1846
stunner1847
bottler1855
beaut1866
bobby-dazzler1866
one out of the box1867
stem-winder1875
corker1877
trimmer1878
hot stuff1884
daisy1886
jim-dandy1887
cracker1891
jim-hickey1895
peacherino1896
pippin1897
alpha plus1898
peacherine1900
pip1900
humdinger1905
bosker1906
hummer1907
good egg1914
superstar1914
the berries1918
bee's knee1923
the cat's whiskers1923
smash1923
smash hit1923
brahma1925
dilly1935
piss-cutter1935
killer1937
killer-diller1938
a hard act to follow1942
peacheroo1942
bitch1946
brammerc1950
hot shit1960
Tiffany1973
bollocks1981
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 18 Were..his lines such transcendentes, as his thoughtes..what an egregious Aretine should we shortly haue.
1612 W. Sclater Serm. 8 I am loth to make them transcendents; yet such, sure, is their authoritie on earth supra seriem.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 175 The Cabalist as a super subtile transcendent, mounteth with all his industrie..from this sensible World unto that other intellectuall.
1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum i. i. 62 ‘The command of a Superiour will hallow..an erroneous Action’, As a Transcendent in our Church speaks.
†3.
a. That which transcends, surpasses, or excels something else, or things generally. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [noun] > better or superior person or thing
betterOE
unlikea1300
superior1537
overmatch1590
transcendent1613
go-by1823
outshiner1864
super-individual1911
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. ii. 6 A Paradise, faire, shining, delightsome,..a meere transcendent, which eye hath not seene.
1658 A. Cokayne Trappolin iii. ii, in Small Poems 474 Your matchless eyes Transcendents of the brightest lightest stars.
†b. A transcendent or pre-eminent quality. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > an excellence
greatnessc1384
excellencec1400
merita1586
eminency1602
eminence1609
excellencya1616
transcendiary1654
transcendenta1706
a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. i. 76 These are the transcendents and pre-eminences which this admirable heathen attributes to mankind.
†4. A 2- or 3-line capital letter such as those put at the beginning of books or chapters. Obsolete. rare.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > printed character(s) > [noun] > upper case or capital > large capital
transcendent1602
drop-letter1894
drop-initial1951
1602 J. Willis Art Stenogr. sig. A4v A Transcendent, is a great Character, which extendeth it selfe further then the distance betweene the lines.
†5. the transcendent n. Obsolete rare the ascendancy, the superiority; = ascendant n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [noun]
predominy?a1475
weight1569
predomination1592
predominance1595
predominancy1598
ascendant1607
predominion1607
prepotency1623
overweight1626
overbearance1639
preponderation1650
prepollency1663
preponderancy1689
the transcendent1691
overpoise1697
preponderance1704
prepollence1730
1691 W. Nicholls Answer Naked Gospel Pref. sig. C His Confidence has generally the transcendent of his Sincerity, which is the common fate of all Hereticks.
6. Mathematics. A transcendental expression or function; a non-algebraical function; e.g. log x, sin x, ax. See transcendental adj. 4.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > expressible only as infinite series
transcendent1809
transcendental1843
1809 Ivory in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 368 They belong to the class of elliptical transcendants.
1816 tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus 24 Those functions..not comprehended in the enumeration made in No. 14, are called transcendents.
1887 R. A. Roberts Integral Calculus i. 3 We might..deduce their properties as we do in the case of the elliptic functions and the higher transcendents.
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