transcursion
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Noun[edit]
transcursion (plural transcursions)
- (obsolete) A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84:
- "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 […] "
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84: