transpass

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ pass?

Verb

transpass (third-person singular simple present transpasses, present participle transpassing, simple past and past participle transpassed)

  1. (largely obsolete) To pass over or through.
    Alexander transpassed the river.
    • 1629, Herodian, Herodian of Alexandria His History of Tvventy Roman CÆsars and Emperors [...] Interpreted Out of the Greeke Originall, page 7:
      […] not containing himselfe within the River Tigris, had transpassed the bankes and bounds of the Romane Empire and made a rode into Mesopotamia, threatning to inuade Syria, and challenging the opposite Continent to Europe  […]
    • 1887, Alexander Winton Buchan, The Vision Stream, Or The Song of Man: An Allegory, in Six Books, page 32:
      […] on it rolled. At mid-point of its way, / Where energy as of full manhood reigned / 'Twas little weakened, but, that stage transpassed, / The drain increased in volume, so that it / To lower level sank, and lower still, / Till, broken up and 'minished into threads / Of solitary life , it disappeared, […]
    • 1977 March 29, Wil D. Verwey, Riot Control Agents and Herbicides in War: Their Humanitarian, Toxicological, Ecological, Military, Polemological, and Legal Aspects, BRILL, →ISBN, page 292:
      […] there would be no limits which cannot be transpassed without provoking international protests.
    • 2012 December 6, H. Sioli, The Amazon: Limnology and landscape ecology of a mighty tropical river and its basin, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 3:
      […] Cristobal de Acuña writes in his preface that they arrived in Pará on December 12, 1639, '... after having transpassed the mountains which feed the beginning of the great river, [...]'

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “transpass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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