transcursion

A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.

Noun

  1. A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
    • 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 […] - 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several...
    • 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. - 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page,...

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