transcendental has definitions from the field of philosophy
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[ adjective ] existing outside of or not in accordance with nature

Examples

"find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley

Used in print

(Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)

In_general , there is no society so secularized as to be completely without religiously inspired transcendental ends .

Related terms

supernatural

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[ adjective ] (philosophy) of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual about the empirical and material

Used in print

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

Emerson - Platonist , idealist , doctrinaire - sounded a high Transcendental note in his `` Boston_Hymn '' , delivered in 1863 in the Boston Music_Hall amidst thundering applause : `` Pay ransom to the owner and fill the bag to the brim .

Related terms

transcendentalism

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