transcend

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English transcenden, from Old French transcender, from Latin transcendere (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”), from trans (“over”) + scandere (“to climb”); see scan; compare ascend, descend. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛnd/ Rhymes: -ɛnd === Verb === transcend (third-person singular simple present transcends, present participle transcending, simple past and past participle transcended) (transitive) To pass beyond the limits of something. (transitive) To surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel. (obsolete) To climb; to mount. ==== Synonyms ==== (to pass beyond the limits of something): exceed, overgo, surpass; see also Thesaurus:transcend (to surpass something): better, dwarf, eclipse; see also Thesaurus:exceed (to climb): ascend ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “transcend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “transcend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.