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The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

One who believes in transcendentalism.

The quality or state of being transcendental.

In a transcendental manner.

Exceptional. [R.] It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor.

Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy.

correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.

over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

Accidental.

s of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed to a transcendental curve.

Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

way; to the purpose; suitably to the place or subject; -- a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.

An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus Thuja. The American species is the T. occidentalis.

A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.

of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.

the same metal in a liquid state. -- To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. -- To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. Shak. -- To burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected t…

A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; - - so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.