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transpass en · VERB

Etymology

From trans- + pass?

Meanings

1. (qualifier:largely obsolete) To pass over or through.
   • […] 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, […] 1887, Alexander Winton Buchan, The Vision Stream, Or The Song of Man: An Allegory, in Six Books, page 32:
   • […] 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, [...]' 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:
   • […] there would be no limits which cannot be transpassed without provoking international protests. 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:
   • […] 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 […] 1629, Herodian, Herodian of Alexandria His History of Tvventy Roman CÆsars and Emperors … Interpreted Out of the Greeke Originall, page 7:
   • Alexander transpassed the river.

Forms

Relateds

pass by

Synonyms

cross (pass over) · overgo (pass over) · traverse (pass over)