transpass meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

transpass

verb

Etymology From trans- + pass?

To pass over or through.

Largely obsolete

Alexander transpassed the river.
[…] not containing himselfe within the River Tigris, had transpassed the bankes and bounds of the Romane Empire and made a rode into Mesopotamia, threatning to inuade Syria, and challenging the opposite Continent to Europe […]1629, Herodian, Herodian of Alexandria His History of Tvventy Roman CÆsars and Emperors … Interpreted Out of the Greeke Originall, page 7:

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[…] on it rolled. At mid-point of its way, / Where energy as of full manhood reigned / 'Twas little weakened, but, that stage transpassed, / The drain increased in volume, so that it / To lower level sank, and lower still, / Till, broken up and 'minished into threads / Of solitary life , it disappeared, […]1887, Alexander Winton Buchan, The Vision Stream, Or The Song of Man: An Allegory, in Six Books, page 32:
[…] there would be no limits which cannot be transpassed without provoking international protests.1977 March 29, Wil D. Verwey, Riot Control Agents and Herbicides in War: Their Humanitarian, Toxicological, Ecological, Military, Polemological, and Legal Aspects, BRILL, →ISBN, page 292:
[…] Cristobal de Acuña writes in his preface that they arrived in Pará on December 12, 1639, '... after having transpassed the mountains which feed the beginning of the great river, [...]'2012 December 6, H. Sioli, The Amazon: Limnology and landscape ecology of a mighty tropical river and its basin, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 3: