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transcends

  • present tense form of transcend (3rd person singular).

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September 8, 2010, Prague Music Festival Transcends Genre Strings of Autumn The jazz pianist Brad Mehldau will be one of the performers at the Strings of Autumn festival in Prague.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2010

A thousand acts Illustrious, both by well-concerted plans And prudent disposition of the host Ulysses hath achieved, but this by far330 Transcends his former praise, that he hath quell'd Such contumelious rhetoric profuse.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

"Paladore—I have heard, Have read bold fables of enormity, Devised to make men wonder, and confirm The abhorrence of our nature; but this hardness Transcends all fiction."

From Newton Forster by Marryat, Frederick

It is the Shadow or Image in the Physical Universe of that Personality which Transcends Time and Space.

From Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall by Klein, Sydney T.

What Muse can boast of equal lays, Thy worth disdains all vulgar fame, Transcends the noblest poet's praise, Art soars, unequal to the flight, And genius sickens at the height.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip