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Definition of transcendental adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

transcendental

adjective
 
/ˌtrænsenˈdentl/
 
/ˌtrænsenˈdentl/
[usually before noun]
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  1. going beyond the usual limits of human knowledge, experience or reason, especially in a religious or spiritual way
    • a transcendental experience
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryTranscendental is used with these nouns:
    • meditation
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    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin transcendentalis, from the verb transcendere, from trans- ‘across’ + scandere ‘climb’.
See transcendental in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee transcendental in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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