Both Uses of
transcend
in
Moby Dick
- But he who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit presides over his own private dinner-table of invited guests, that man's unchallenged power and dominion of individual influence for the time; that man's royalty of state transcends Belshazzar's, for Belshazzar was not the greatest.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- Therein no fairy's arm can transcend it.†
Chpt 85-87
Definition:
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(transcend) exceed (go beyond); or surpass (to be more or better)