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English

Etymology

transcendental +? -ist

Noun

transcendentalist (plural transcendentalists)

1. One who believes in transcendentalism.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     “I accept the universe” is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: “Gad! she'd better!”

2. Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.

Related terms

• transcendentalism

See also

• Wikibooks: Transcendentalist Theology

Romanian

Etymology

From French transcendantaliste

Noun

transcendentalist m (plural transcendentali?ti)

1. transcendentalist

Declension

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): /t?æn(t)?s?nd/

Verb

transcend (third-person singular simple present transcends, present participle transcending, simple past and past participle transcended)

1. (transitive) to pass beyond the limits of something.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     such personal popes, emperors, or elective kings, as shall transcend their limits

2. (transitive) to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
   • c. 1698, John Dryden, Epitaph on the Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady (

     How much her worth transcended all her kind.

3. (obsolete) To climb; to mount.
   • September 5 1632, James Howell, "To Sir Tho. Haw." in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     your Muse soars up to the upper, and transcending that too, takes her fight among the Celestial bodies

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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• transcend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.