Transpass

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(largely obsolete) To pass over or through..

Example Sentences

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 […]

[…] 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, […]

[…] there would be no limits which cannot be transpassed without provoking international protests.

[…] 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, [...]'

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• transpasses
• transpassing
• transpassed

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