transcendental


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
transcendental/transenˈdentl/
adjective
  • 1 relating to a spiritual realm.

    ■ relating to or denoting Transcendentalism.

  • 2 (in Kantian philosophy) presupposed in and necessary to experience; a priori.
  • 3 Mathematics (of a quantity or function) not capable of being produced by the algebraical operations of addition, multiplication, and involution, or the inverse operations.
– derivatives
transcendentalize (or transcendentalise) verb,
transcendentally adverb.
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