Transcendo, transcendis, transeendi, transcensum, transcÊdere, ex trans & scando composirum. Cic.To goe or clime ouer: to exceede: to passe: to surmount.Nostrum nomen vel Caucasum hÛc transcendere potuit.Cic.Our name or tenowne could passe or go beyond, &c.Alpes transcendere.Cic.To passe the Alpes.In naues inimicorum transcendere. Cæsa. Vallum transcendere. Luca. To get or climbe ouer.Transcendet hæc licentia in prouincias. Ta. Transcendit ætatem primæ iuuentæ, Col.Hee passed.Annos florentes tranlcendere. Sil. Finis transcendere iuris. Lucret.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
transcendo or trans-scendo, di, sum, 3, v. a. and n. [scando], to climb, pass, cross, or step over, to overstep, surmount.I.Lit. (freq. and class.; cf.: supero, transgredior). A.Neutr.: est periculum me ab asinis ad boves transcendere, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 58: transcendere in hostium naves, Caes. B. G. 3, 15; id. B. C. 1, 58: in Italiam (Hasdrubal), Liv. 28, 42, 14: in fines hostium, id. 3, 8, 4: in Latinum agrum, id. 4, 53, 2: in Sedetanum agrum, id. 28, 31, 7; cf.: per Vescinos in Campaniam Falernumque agrum, id. 10, 20, 1; 31, 29, 6; 36, 24, 4.—B.Act.: fossam transire et maceriam transcendere conantur. Caes. B. G. 7, 70: fossas, id. B. C. 3, 46: valles, id. ib. 1, 68: Caucasum, Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 22: Alpes, id. Cat. 4, 3, 6; Liv. 5, 34, 8; 5, 35, 1: Apenninum, id. 22, 1, 1: Taurum, Just. 11, 8, 2: flumen exercitu, Tac. A. 4, 44: limen, Prop. 1, 14, 19 et saep.—II.Trop., to pass over, to overstep, surpass, exceed, transcend (rare; not in Cic.). A.Neutr.: ad leviora,
to pass over
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make a transition
, Quint. 7, 1, 21: ad majora, Vell. 2, 130, 3: ex minore aetate in majorem, Hyg. ap. Gell. 16, 6, 15. — Absol.: ut non abrupte cadere in narrationem, ita non obscure transcendere, Quint. 4, 1, 79. — B.Act.: transcendere fines Juris,
to orerstep
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transgress
, Lucr. 3, 60: transcendere ordinem aetatis, naturae, moris Macedonum, juris gentium, Liv. 40, 11, 7; cf. id. 40, 9, 8: prohibita impune, Tac. A. 3, 54: nec declinari transcendique posse agmina fati, Gell. 7 (6), 2, 5.—2.To excel, exceed, surpass, transcend: aetatem primae juventae, Col. 1, 8, 3: at tu transcendes, Germanice, facta tuorum, Sil. 3, 607: annos factis, id. 4, 428: florentes annos viribus, id. 1, 226: vota transcendi mea, Sen. Thyest. 912: aliquem aetate, id. Troad. 702.