TRANSCENDENT

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor. Clothed with transcendent brightness. Milton.

2.
a.

Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.

3.
n.

That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.