exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
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beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
<adj.all> the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought
Transcendent \Tran*scend"ent\, a. [L. transcendens, -entis, p. pr. of transcendere to transcend: cf. F. transcendant, G. transcendent.] 1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
Clothed with transcendent brightness. --Milton.
2. (Kantian Philos.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
Transcendent \Tran*scend"ent\, n. That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
The Gospel speaks to transcendent issues, yet politicians regularly try to turn it into a partisan weapon.
Each of the items, the author claims, proceeds "straight from the authentically diseased minds of transcendent visionaries and compulsive would-be saviors," not to mention those perennial favorites, "borderline psychos."
By the time I scented the salt air of Galway Bay I was feeling transcendent. Fifteen minutes later, at the end of a two-mile tailback into Galway town, it all came crashing down.
The City Opera did it Tuesday with "The Marriage of Figaro" _ not sublime Mozart and not a transcendent musical experience, but yet a satisfying theatrical one.
For all of Mr. Ackroyd's patent desire to convince us that he is communicating a transcendent vision, there's little vision here, and altogether too much mystical posturing.
The man has a transcendent spirit. Picking this year's winners is, as ever, a mug's game in spring.
In a transcendent scene, Hauptmann chillingly recounts a version of the baby's kidnapping and death.