adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a transcendental manner or degree; according to a transcendental system.
1803. Edin. Rev., Jan., 277. Of moral duty it may be said, in like manner, that transcendentally it cannot exist.
[1842. Mrs. Browning, Bk. Poets, Poems 1890, V. 241. Some have discovered that he [Shakspere] individualized, and some that he generalized, and some that he subtilized—almost trans-transcendentally.]
1877. E. Caird, Philos. Kant, II. iii. 244. We hold that space and time are transcendentally ideal, i. e. that they have no objective validity … apart from the constitution of the sensibility through which they are apprehended.
¶ b. erron. = TRANSCENDENTLY.
1870. Eng. Mech., 11 March, 636/2. The diamond, so transcendentally beautiful.
