transcendental

—transcendentality, n. —transcendentally adv.

/tran'sen den"tl, -seuhn-/, adj.

1. transcendent, surpassing, or superior.

2. being beyond ordinary or common experience, thought, or belief; supernatural.

3. abstract or metaphysical.

4. idealistic, lofty, or extravagant.

5. Philos.

a. beyond the contingent and accidental in human experience, but not beyond all human knowledge. Cf. transcendent (def. 4b).

b. pertaining to certain theories, etc., explaining what is objective as the contribution of the mind.

c. Kantianism. of, pertaining to, based upon, or concerned with a priori elements in experience, which condition human knowledge. Cf. transcendent (def. 4b).

6. Math. See transcendental number.

7. transcendentals, Scholasticism. categories that have universal application, as being, one, true, good.

[1615-25; < ML transcendentalis. See TRANSCENDENT, -AL¹]

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(as used in expressions)

transcendental argument

transcendental function

Transcendental Meditation

transcendental number

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Transcendental — Tran scen*den tal, a. [Cf. F. transcendantal, G. transcendental.] 1. Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities. [1913 Webster] 2. (Philos.) In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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