† transcurv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive and intransitive. To run across or over; to run or rove to and fro.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)]
thoroughfareeOE
overrunOE
through-goOE
through-gangOE
passc1300
traverse?a1400
go1483
transcur1528
sweep1600
oversweep1612
supermeate1656
percur1835
overmeasure1896
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > wander in thought [verb (intransitive)]
wanderc1400
transcur1528
gad1538
rove1549
ramble1616
to go, or to be, a-wandering1700
run1801
1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 777 Tygris, Ganges, Ewphrates, and Nyle, Quhilk, in the est, Transcurris mony ane myle.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §720 It is caused by the Fixing of the Minde upon one Object..whereby it doth not spatiate and transcurre, as it useth.
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