transpass

present singular third person transpasses · participle present transpassing · participle past transpassed · past transpassed

1. largely obsoleteTo pass over or through.

   Alexander transpassed the river.

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   […] 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

   […] 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

   Synonyms: cross, overgo, traverse