Crossword clues for transgressed
transgressed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transgress \Trans*gress"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transgressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Transgressing.] [Cf. F. transgresser. See Transgression.]
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To pass over or beyond; to surpass. [R.]
Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.
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Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the ?imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command.
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To offend against; to vex. [Obs.]
Why give you peace to this imperate beast That hath so long transgressed you ?
--Beau. & Fl.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: transgress)
Usage examples of "transgressed".
For who among the living is there that has not sinned, or who among men that has not transgressed thy covenant?
Whoever transgressed the permission of the law, was subject to various and heavy penalties.
It was as if, like Jean Valjean, he was being stalked by a relentless pursuer from the other side of time, from a life in which he had transgressed once too often or too well.
For what can give laws to another must needs be superior to him, and since the legislative is no otherwise legislative of the society but by the right it has to make laws for all the parts, and every member of the society prescribing rules to their actions, they are transgressed, the legislative must needs be the supreme, and all other powers in any members or parts of the society derived from and subordinate to it.
Wherever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another’s harm.