transcur
verbEtymology From Latin transcurrere, transcursum, from trans (“across, over”) + currere (“to run”).
1
Obsolete To run or rove to and fro, to flit
- For astonishment , it is caused by the fixing of the mind upon one object of cogitation , whereby it doth not spatiate and transcur, as it useth ; for in wonder the spirits fly not , as in fear ; but only settle , and are made less apt to move1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
2
To transpire, to occur
Probably nonstandard
- Related terms
- transcurrence, transcurrent