transgress

[trans·gress]

When you go beyond the boundaries, either physically or morally, you transgress. A river will transgress its banks as it floods, and students who cheat transgress school rules.

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To pass over or beyond; to surpass.

Verb
pass beyond (limits or boundaries)

Verb
commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

Verb
act in disregard of laws and rules; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"

Verb
spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline; "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island"

v. t.
To pass over or beyond; to surpass.

v. t.
Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.

v. t.
To offend against; to vex.

v. i.
To offend against the law; to sin.

Transgress

Trans*gress" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transgressed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Transgressing.] [Cf. F. transgresser. See Transgression.] 1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. [R.]

Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.

2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.

For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command.

3. To offend against; to vex. [Obs.]

Why give you peace to this imperate beast That hath so long transgressed you ?

Transgress

Trans*gress", v. i. To offend against the law; to sin.

Who transgressed in the thing accursed.

To pass over or beyond; to surpass.

To offend against the law; to sin.

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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

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