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transcursion

transcursion noun: a rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.

Noun

transcursion (plural transcursions)

  1. (obsolete) A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
    • And if Man were out of the world, who were then left to view the face of Heaven, to wonder at the transcursion of Comets […]1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84
    • In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...

Forms of transcursion

pluraltranscursions

Questions about transcursion

What does transcursion mean?
Transcursion means a rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
What part of speech is transcursion?
Transcursion is a noun.
What is the plural of transcursion?
The plural of transcursion is transcursions.

Words near transcursion in the dictionary

  1. transcurrence
  2. transcurrent
  3. transcurrently
  4. transcurring
  5. transcurs
  6. transcursion
  7. transcursions
  8. transcutaneous
  9. transcutaneously
  10. transcuticular
  11. transcutol

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