Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 62

Transcendency () The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence.

Transcendency () Elevation above truth; exaggeration.

Transcendent (a.) Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.

Transcendent (a.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.

Trancscendent (n.) That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.

Trancscendental (a.) Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities.

Trancscendental (a.) In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.

Trancscendental (a.) Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction.

Transcendental (n.) A transcendentalist.

Transcendentalism (n.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

Transcendentalism (n.) Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.

Transcendentalist (n.) One who believes in transcendentalism.

Transcendentality (n.) The quality or state of being transcendental.

Transcendentally (adv.) In a transcendental manner.

Transcendently (adv.) In a transcendent manner.

Transcendentness (n.) Same as Transcendence.

Transcension (n.) The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over.

Transcolated (imp. & p. p.) of Transcolate

Transcolating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transcolate

Transcolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve.

Transcolation (n.) Act of transcolating, or state of being transcolated.

Transcontinental (a.) Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.

Transcorporate (v. i.) To transmigrate.

Transcribbler (n.) A transcriber; -- used in contempt.

Transcribed (imp. & p. p.) of Transcribe

Transcribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transcribe

Transcribe (v. t.) To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

Transcriber (n.) One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.

Transcript (n.) That which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.

Transcript (n.) A copy of any kind; an imitation.

Transcript (n.) A written version of what was said orally; as, a transcript of a trial.

Transcription (n.) The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

Transcription (n.) A copy; a transcript.

Transcription (n.) An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.

Transcriptive (a.) Done as from a copy; having the style or appearance of a transcription.

Transcur (v. i.) To run or rove to and fro.

Transcurrence (n.) A roving hither and thither.

Transcursion (n.) A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion.

Transdialect (v. t.) To change or translate from one dialect into another.

Transduction (n.) The act of conveying over.

Transe (n.) See Trance.

Transelement (v. t.) Alt. of Transelementate

Transelementate (v. t.) To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate.

Transelementation (n.) Transubstantiation.

Transenne (n.) A transom.

Transept (n.) The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.

Transexion (n.) Change of sex.

Transfeminate (v. t.) To change into a woman, as a man.

Transferred (imp. & p. p.) of Transfer

Transferring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transfer

Transfer (v. t.) To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

Transfer (v. t.) To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.

Transfer (v. t.) To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.

Transfer (n.) The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

Transfer (n.) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.

Transfer (n.) That which is transferred.

Transfer (n.) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.

Transfer (n.) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.

Transfer (n.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

Transfer (n.) A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.

Transferability (n.) The quality or state of being transferable.

Transferable (a.) Capable of being transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.

Transferable (a.) Negotiable, as a note, bill of exchange, or other evidence of property, that may be conveyed from one person to another by indorsement or other writing; capable of being transferred with no loss of value; as, the stocks of most public companies are transferable; some tickets are not transferable.

Transferee (n.) The person to whom a transfer in made.

Transference (n.) The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

Transferography (n.) The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers.

Transferrence (n.) See Transference.

Transferrer (n.) One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

Transferrible (a.) Capable of being transferred; transferable.

Transfigurate (v. t.) To transfigure; to transform.

Transfiguratien (n.) A change of form or appearance; especially, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.

Transfiguratien (n.) A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.

Transfigured (imp. & p. p.) of Transfigure

Transfiguring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transfigure

Transfigure (v. t.) To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.

Transfigure (v. t.) Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to.

Transfixed (imp. & p. p.) of Transfix

Transfixing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transfix

Transfix (v. t.) To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.

Transfixion (n.) The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced.

Transfluent (a.) Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream.

Transfluent (a.) Passing or flowing through a bridge; -- said of water.

Transflux (n.) A flowing through, across, or beyond.

Transforate (v. t.) To bore through; to perforate.

Transformed (imp. & p. p.) of Transform

Transforming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transform

Transform (v. t.) To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.

Transform (v. t.) To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.

Transform (v. t.) To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert.

Transform (v. t.) To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.

Transform (v. i.) To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed.

Transformable (a.) Capable of being transformed or changed.

Transformation (n.) The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.

Transformation (n.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.

Transformation (n.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.

Transformation (n.) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation.

Transformation (n.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion.

Transformation (n.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value.

Transformative (a.) Having power, or a tendency, to transform.

Transformer (n.) One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.

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