Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 62
Transcendency (n.) The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence.
The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity at its controlling principle. --A. V. G. Allen.
Transcendency (n.) Elevation above truth; exaggeration.
Transcendent (a.) Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
Clothed with transcendent brightness. -- Milton.
Transcendent (a.) (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.
Trancscendent (n.) That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
Transcendent (a.) Exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence [syn: transcendent, surpassing].
Transcendent (a.) Beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought".
Trancscendental (a.) Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities.
Trancscendental (a.) (Philos.) In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.
Trancscendental (a.) Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction.
Note: In mathematics, a quantity is said to be transcendental relative to another quantity when it is expressed as a transcendental function of the latter; thus, a^{x, 10^{2x, log x, sin x, tan x, etc., are transcendental relative to x.
Transcendental curve (Math.), A curve in which one ordinate is a transcendental function of the other.
Transcendental equation (Math.), An equation into which a transcendental function of one of the unknown or variable quantities enters.
Transcendental function. (Math.) See under Function.
Syn: Transcendental, Empirical.
Usage: These terms, with the corresponding nouns, transcendentalism and empiricism, are of comparatively recent origin. Empirical refers to knowledge which is gained by the experience of actual phenomena, without reference to the principles or laws to which they are to be referred, or by which they are to be explained. Transcendental has reference to those beliefs or principles which are not derived from experience, and yet are absolutely necessary to make experience possible or useful. Such, in the better sense of the term, is the transcendental philosophy, or transcendentalism. Each of these words is also used in a bad sense, empiricism applying to that one-sided view of knowledge which neglects or loses sight of the truths or principles referred to above, and trusts to experience alone; transcendentalism, to the opposite extreme, which, in its deprecation of experience, loses sight of the relations which facts and phenomena sustain to principles, and hence to a kind of philosophy, or a use of language, which is vague, obscure, fantastic, or extravagant.
Transcendental (n.) A transcendentalist. [Obs.]
Transcendentalism (n.) (Kantian Philos.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
Note: As Schelling and Hegel claim to have discovered the absolute identity of the objective and subjective in human knowledge, or of things and human conceptions of them, the Kantian distinction between transcendent and transcendental ideas can have no place in their philosophy; and hence, with them, transcendentalism claims to have a true knowledge of all things, material and immaterial, human and divine, so far as the mind is capable of knowing them. And in this sense the word transcendentalism is now most used. It is also sometimes used for that which is vague and illusive in philosophy.
Compare: Ascertain
Ascertain (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Ascertained; p. pr. & vb. n. Ascertaining.] To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise. [Obs.]
When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained. -- Jer. Taylor.
Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects. -- Robertson.
Ascertain (v. t.) To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine. [Archaic].
The divine law . . . ascertaineth the truth. -- Hooker.
The very deferring [of his execution] shall increase and ascertain the condemnation. -- Jer. Taylor.
The ministry, in order to ascertain a majority . . . persuaded the queen to create twelve new peers. -- Smollett.
The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. -- Gibbon.
Ascertain (v. t.) To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal.
He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable. -- Macaulay.
Transcendentalism (n.) Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
Transcendentalist (n.) One who believes in transcendentalism.
Transcendentality (n.) The quality or state of being transcendental.
Transcendentally (adv.) In a transcendental manner.
Transcendently (adv.) In a transcendent manner.
Transcendentness (n.) Same as Transcendence.
Transcension (n.) The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over.
Transcolated (imp. & p. p.) of Transcolate.
Transcolating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transcolate.
Transcolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve.
Transcolation (n.) Act of transcolating, or state of being transcolated.
Transcontinental (a.) 橫貫大陸的，大陸那邊的 Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.
Transcontinental (a.) Spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent; "transcontinental railway"; "transcontinental travelers"; "a transcontinental city."
Transcorporate (v. i.) To transmigrate.
Transcribbler (n.) A transcriber; -- used in contempt.
Transcribed (imp. & p. p.) of Transcribe.
Transcribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transcribe.
Transcribe (v. t.) To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.
Transcriber (n.) One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.
Transcript (n.) That which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
Transcript (n.) A copy of any kind; an imitation.
Transcript (n.) A written version of what was said orally; as, a transcript of a trial.
Transcription (n.) The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.
Transcription (n.) A copy; a transcript.
Transcription (n.) An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.
Transcriptive (a.) Done as from a copy; having the style or appearance of a transcription.
Transcur (v. i.) To run or rove to and fro.
Transcurrence (n.) A roving hither and thither.
Transcursion (n.) A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion.
Transdialect (v. t.) To change or translate from one dialect into another.
Transduction (n.) The act of conveying over.
Transe (n.) See Trance.
Transelement (v. t.) Alt. of Transelementate.
Transelementate (v. t.) To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate.
Transelementation (n.) Transubstantiation.
Transenne (n.) A transom.
Transept (n.) The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.
Transexion (n.) Change of sex.
Transfeminate (v. t.) To change into a woman, as a man.
Transferred (imp. & p. p.) of Transfer.
Transferring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transfer.
Transfer (v. t.) To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.
Transfer (v. t.) To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.
Transfer (v. t.) To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone. -- Tomlinson.
Syn: To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester.
Transfer (n.) The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.
Transfer (n.) (Law) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.
I shall here only consider it as a transfer of property. --Burke.
Transfer (n.) That which is transferred. Specifically:
Transfer (n.) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another. -- Fairholt.
Transfer (n.) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.
Transfer (n.) (Mil.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
Transfer (n.) (Med.) A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
Transfer day, One of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. -- Bithell.
Transfer office, An office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made.
Transfer paper, A prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions.
Transfer table. (Railroad) Same as Traverse table. See under Traverse.
Transfer (n.) The act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance].
Transfer (n.) Someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another; "the best student was a transfer from LSU" [syn: transfer, transferee].
Transfer (n.) The act of transfering something from one form to another; "the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise" [syn: transfer, transference].
Transfer (n.) A ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances.
Transfer (n.) Application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation [syn: transfer, transfer of training, carry-over].
Transfer (n.) Transferring ownership [syn: transfer, transference].
Transfer (v.) Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work [syn: transfer, reassign].
Transfer (v.) Move from one place to another; "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital."
Transfer (v.) Lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants" [syn: transplant, transfer].
Transfer (v.) Move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" [syn: transfer, shift].
Transfer (v.) Cause to change ownership; "I transferred my stock holdings to my children."
Transfer (v.) Change from one vehicle or transportation line to another; "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast" [syn: transfer, change].
Transfer (v.) Send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise].
Transfer (v.) Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court" [syn: remove, transfer].
Transfer (v.) Transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn: transfer, transpose, transplant].
Transfer, () Data transfer.
Transfer, () Transfer of control.
Transfer, () The movement of electronic mail between servers by a Message Transfer Agent.
Transfer, (cont.) The act by which the owner of a thing delivers it to another person, with the intent of passing the rights which he has in it to the latter.
Transfer, (cont.) It is a rule founded on the plainest dictates of common sense, adopted in all systems of law, that no one can transfer a right to another which he has not himself: nemo plus juris ad alienum transfers potest quam ipse habet. Dig. 50, 17, 54 10 Pet. 161, 175; Co. Litt. 305.
Transfer, (cont.) To transfer means to change; for example, one may transfer a legacy, either, 1st. By the change of the person of the legatee, as, I bequeath to Primus a horse which I before bequeathed to Secundus. 2d. By the change of the thing bequeathed, as, I bequeath to Tertius my History of the United States instead of my copy of the Life of Washington. 3d. By the change of the person who was bound to pay the legacy, as, I direct that the sun) of one hundred dollars, which I directed should be charged upon my house which I gave to Quartus, shall be paid by my executors.
Transferability (n.) The quality or state of being transferable.
Transferability (n.) The quality of being transferable or exchangeable; "sterling transferability affords a means of multilateral settlement for....trade between nondollar countries."
Transferable (a.) Capable of being transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.
Transferable (a.) Negotiable, as a note, bill of exchange, or other evidence of property, that may be conveyed from one person to another by indorsement or other writing; capable of being transferred with no loss of value; as, the stocks of most public companies are transferable; some tickets are not transferable.
Transferable (a.) Capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another [syn: movable, moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable].
Transferable (a.) Legally transferable to the ownership of another; "negotiable bonds" [syn: assignable, conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable].
Transferee (n.) The person to whom a transfer in made.
Transferee (n.) (Law) Someone to whom a title or property is conveyed.
Transferee (n.) Someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another; "the best student was a transfer from LSU" [syn: transfer, transferee].
Transferee. () He to whom a transfer is made.
Transference (n.) The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.
Transference (n.) (Psychoanalysis) The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst.
Transference (n.) (Psychoanalysis) Transferring ownership [syn: transfer, transference]
Transference (n.) (Psychoanalysis) The act of transfering something from one form to another; "the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise" [syn: transfer, transference].
Transference, () Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was pending at the time the parties died, is transferred from the deceased to his representatives, in the same condition in which it stood formerly. If it be the pursuer who is dead, the action is called a transference active; if the defender, it is a transference passive. Ersk. Prin. B. 4, t. 1, n. 32.
Transferography (n.) The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers.
Transferrence (n.) See Transference.
Transferrer (n.) One who makes a transfer or conveyance.
Transferrer (n.) 1: Someone who transfers something [syn: transferer, transferrer].
Transferrible (a.) Capable of being transferred; transferable.
Transfigurate (v. t.) To transfigure; to transform. [R.]
Transfigure (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Transfigured; p. pr. & vb. n. Transfiguring.] To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
Transfigure (v. t.) Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to.
[Jesus] was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. -- Matt. xvii. 2.
Transfigure (v.) Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration [syn: transfigure, glorify, spiritualize].
Transfigure (v.) Change completely the nature or appearance of; "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"; "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman"; "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection" [syn: metamorphose, transfigure, transmogrify].
Transfigure (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 使變樣；使改觀 To change the appearance of a person or thing very much, usually in a very positive and often spiritual way.
// As she gazed down at the baby, her face was transfigured with tenderness.
// The assassination somehow transfigured Kennedy into a modern American saint.
Transfiguratien (n.) 變形，變容，變貌 A change of form or appearance; especially, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.
Transfiguration of Jesus (n.) 耶穌顯聖容 The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event reported in the New Testament when Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain.[1][2] The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–8, Luke 9:28–36) describe it, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it (2 Peter 1:16–18). It has also been hypothesized that the first chapter of the Gospel of John alludes to it (John 1:14).[3]
In these accounts, Jesus and three of his apostles, Peter, James, John, go to a mountain (the Mount of Transfiguration) to pray. On the mountain, Jesus begins to shine with bright rays of light. Then the prophets Moses and Elijah appear next to him and he speaks with them. Jesus is then called "Son" by a voice in the sky, assumed to be God the Father, as in the Baptism of Jesus. [1]
Many Christian traditions, including the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, commemorate the event in the Feast of the Transfiguration, a major festival.
Transfiguratien (n.) (Eccl.) A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.
Transfigured (imp. & p. p.) of Transfigure.
Transfiguring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transfigure.
Transfigure (v. t.) 使變形，使莊嚴，使理想化，美化 To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
Transfigure (v. t.) Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to.
[Jesus] was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as
the light. -- Matt. xvii. 2.
Transfigure (v.) Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration [syn: {transfigure}, {glorify}, {spiritualize}].
Transfigure (v.) Change completely the nature or appearance of; "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"; "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman"; "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection" [syn: {metamorphose}, {transfigure}, {transmogrify}].
Transfixed (imp. & p. p.) of Transfix.
Transfixing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transfix.
Transfix (v. t.) To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
Transfix (v.) To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra" [syn: fascinate, transfix, grip, spellbind].
Transfix (v.) Pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer" [syn: transfix, impale, empale, spike].
Transfixion (n.) The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced. -- Bp. Hall.
Transfluent (a.) Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream.
Transfluent (a.) (Her.) Passing or flowing through a bridge; -- said of water. -- Wright.
Transflux (n.) A flowing through, across, or beyond. [R.]
Transforate (v. t.) To bore through; to perforate. [Obs.]
Transformed (imp. & p. p.) of Transform.
Transforming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transform.
Transform (v. t.) 轉換，改變，改造，使…變形 To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.
Love may transform me to an oyster. -- Shak.
Transform (v. t.) To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
Transform (v. t.) To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert.
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. -- Rom. xii. 2.
Transform (v. t.) (Math.) To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.
Transform (v. i.) 改變，轉化，變換 To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed. [R.]
His hair transforms to down. -- Addison.
Transform (v.) Subject to a mathematical transformation.
Transform (v.) Change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another" [syn: {transform}, {transmute}, {transubstantiate}].
Transform (v.) Change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" [syn: {transform}, {transmute}, {metamorphose}].
Transform (v.) Change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil" [syn: {translate}, {transform}].
Transform (v.) Convert (one form of energy) to another; "transform energy to light".
Transform (v.) Change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species.
Transform (v.) Increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage).
Transformable (a.) 可變形的；可變化的；可轉化的；能改變的；可改造的，可改革的 Capable of being transformed or changed.
Transformable (a.) Capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy; "is lead really transmutable into gold?"; "ideas translatable into reality" [syn: convertible, transformable, translatable, transmutable].
Transformation (n.) 變形，變質，變化，改造，轉變，變壓；[語] 轉換 (式) The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically:
Transformation (n.) (Biol.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.
Transformation (n.) (Physiol.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.
Transformation (n.) (Alchemy) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation.
Transformation (n.) (Theol.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion.
Transformation (n.) (Math.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value.
Transformation (n.) A qualitative change [syn: transformation, transmutation, shift].
Transformation (n.) (Mathematics) A function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
Transformation (n.) A rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure.
Transformation (n.) (Genetics) Modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA.
Transformation (n.) The act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface" [syn: transformation, translation].
Transformative (a.) Having power, or a tendency, to transform.
Transformer (n.) One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.