单词 | transgressive |
释义 | transgressiveadj. 1. Having the character or quality of transgressing. a. Involving transgression; sinful. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > [adjective] misfaringc1300 fayllarda1325 wronga1382 wrongfulc1384 misdoinga1398 misdeedya1400 wrongdoingc1400 digressinga1535 transgressing1535 offending1552 exorbitant1556 offensive1595 transgressive1646 maleficent1760 transgredient1837 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [adjective] > violating the law unlawfula1387 trespassant1587 perfract1616 rumpant1621 transgressive1646 violatory1687 violent1697 violative1745 law-breaking1767 transgressinga1812 transgredient1837 infringing1897 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [adjective] > transgressing or offending > of the nature of a fault or offence sinfulc1175 faulty1548 slanderous1554 offensible1575 offenciousa1593 piacular1610 peccable1633 piaculous1646 transgressive1646 piacularly1818 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. x. 37 Adam..from the transgressive infirmities of himselfe might have erred alone, as well as the Angels before him. View more context for this quotation 1800 Ann. Reg. 1797 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 57/1 The powers assumed..were explicitly termed unconstitutional, and transgressive of the authority lodged in them by the laws. b. Passing beyond some limit. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [adjective] > passing beyond a point or limit transgressive1735 1735 H. Brooke Universal Beauty iii. 30 Where the Solar Heat, and searching Air Transgressive, pierce our actuated Sphere. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [adjective] > movement of parts > specific unformal1597 transgressive1761 consecutive1819 hidden1869 tonal1869 ostinato1876 direct1880 sequential?1890 1761 F. H. E. Stiles in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 704 Systems were there considered as differing in respect, first, to magnitude; secondly, to genus; thirdly, to the being consonant or dissonant; fourthly, to the being rational or irrational; fifthly, to the being sequent or transgressive. 3. Geology. Overlapping: cf. transgression n. 2 (So French transgressif (Littré).) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [adjective] > of or belonging to a stratum > overlapping transgressive1854 1854 [see transgressively adv. at Derivatives]. 1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Transgressivus,..applied to a couch or bed that becomes deposited on others of different natures and different levels by rising over them, so that it is necessarily more or less inclined: transgressive. Derivatives transˈgressively adv. in a transgressive manner; spec. in Geology †(a) unconformably; (b) so as to overlap the formation next below it. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [adverb] > overlapping transgressively1847 1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Transgressively,..by transgressing. 1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria viii. 169 The Silurian series overlap transgressively or unconformably the edges of the subjacent sandstone. 1879 A. Geikie in Encycl. Brit. X. 371/2 Up~raised Lower Silurian rocks, upon the upturned and denuded edges of which the Carboniferous Limestone lies transgressively. Draft additions September 2006 That violates or challenges social, moral, or artistic conventions; subversive, experimental. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > breaking rule or custom violatory1687 transgressional1690 violative1745 transgressinga1812 transgressive1969 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [adjective] > types of artistic treatment or style antica1536 Moresque1611 barbaric1667 massive1723 popular1730 maniéré1743 regency1811 tedesco1814 massy1817 Barbaresque1831 sensualistic1838 broad1849 conventional1851 expressional1856 tight1891 stylized1898 distressed1940 pop1956 transgressive1969 1969 R. Thomlinson Urban Structure v. 90 Contemporary novels, whose characters work seventy-hour weeks..to pay for wild, sexually transgressive weekend parties. 1985 October 34 54 The museum has become open to charges that it represses political and/or transgressive art. 1992 Premiere Feb. 22/1 Naked Lunch has become the classic American underground novel,..cheered on by troops of Frenchified academicians who place it in the ‘transgressive’ tradition of Rimbaud, Céline, and Artaud. 1994 S. J. Douglas Where Girls Are (1995) ii. 50 These were transgressive women, trespassers who delighted in violating the boundaries of femininity. 2000 J. Caughie Television Drama iii. 84 Broadcasting is serious, and to be serious it must be challenging, controversial, and even transgressive. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1646 |
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