tran·scen·dent /-dənt/
(a.)卓越的;超絕的
Tran·scend·ent a.
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.
Tran·scend·ent, n. That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
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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]