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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
transcendent
adj 1: beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or
understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject
the notion of any transcendent reality beyond
thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought
itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of
lifer" [syn: {unknowable}]
2: exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in
excellence [syn: {surpassing}]
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