transcend

verb

Etymology: From Middle English transcenden, from Old French transcender, from Latin transcendō (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”), from trans (“over”) + scandō (“to climb”); see scan; compare ascend, descend.

1. To pass beyond the limits of something.

   “We cannot transcend what we refuse to face.”

   “such personal popes, emperors, or elective kings, as shall transcend their limits”

2. To surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.

   “How much her worth transcended all her kind.”

3. To climb; to mount.

   “lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds”

   “your Muse soars up to the upper, and transcending that too, takes her fight among the Celestial bodies”