The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transcend \Tran*scend"\ (tr[a^]n*s[e^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transcended; p. pr. & vb. n. Transcending.] [L. transcendere, transcensum; trans beyond, over + scandere to climb. See Scan.]
To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.
--Howell.-
To pass over; to go beyond; to exceed.
Such popes as shall transcend their limits.
--Bacon.8. To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed.
How much her worth transcended all her kind.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of transcend English)
Usage examples of "transcending".
It knows only an inside, a vital and ineluctable participation in the set of social structures, with no possibility of transcending them.
Being, since without unity these could not be each one thing: of course what is here meant is not the unity postulated as transcending Being but the unity predicable of the Ideas which constitute each several thing.
It will have to work toward specific theories of free noospheric exchange, including but transcending ecological concerns.
Heart, the unspoken Word, that integrates both Ascent and Descent and finds Spirit both transcending the Many and embracing the Many.
Ego itself is painted in the very worst possible light: following the typical Romantic agenda, the Ego is defined as a dissociation and not as a transformative and transcending differentiation.
Sixth Tractate -- That the Principle Transcending Being has No Intellectual Act.
Now, given an Existent which--as being itself the best of existences and even transcending the existences--directs its Act towards no other, but is the object to which the Act of all else is directed, it is clear that this must be at once the Good and the means through which all else may participate in Good.
To have penetrated this idea is to know the greatness of the soul and its power, the divinity and wonder of its being, as a nature transcending the sphere of Things.
The One, as transcending Intellect, transcends knowing: above all need, it is above the need of the knowing which pertains solely to the Secondary Nature.
There is thus something transcending Intellectual-Principle, for we must remember that real being is no corpse, the negation of life and of intellection, but is in fact identical with the Intellectual-Principle.
Him dependent upon the universe: transcending all, He was able at once to make all things and to leave them to their own being, He above.
And that Transcending was tailor-made, too, re-establishing the Power that had set the trap to begin with.
One, as transcending Intellect, transcends knowing: above all need, it is above the need of the knowing which pertains solely to the Secondary Nature.
It was much more congenial to him to see poetry not as a pouring out of personal emotion and personal experience, but as a transcending of the individual by a sense of tradition which spoke through, and is transmitted by, the individual poet.
Greater Berlin to the point of finite transcending utilization lays bare end structure.