transcur

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English

Etymology

From Latin transcurrere, transcursum, from trans (across, over) + currere (to run).

Verb

transcur (third-person singular simple present transcurs, present participle transcurring, simple past and past participle transcurred)

  1. (obsolete) To run or rove to and fro.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      For astonishment , it is caused by the fixing of the mind upon one object of cogitation , whereby it doth not spatiate and transcur, as it useth ; for in wonder the spirits fly not , as in fear ; but only settle , and are made less apt to move

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for transcur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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