Obs. [ad. late L. transcursiōn-em, n. of action f. transcurrĕre to run across.]
1. The action of running or passing across or through; a going or moving through, transition, penetration; also, a journey or passage through a country, across the sea, etc.
1624. Wotton, Archit., in Reliq. (1651), 307. Such notes as I have taken in my forraigne transcursions or abodes.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, x. Pref. In a Living Creature … the Sense, and the Affects of any one Part of the Body, instantly make a Transcursion thorowout the whole Body.
1653. H. More, Antid. Ath., II. xii. § 17 (1712), 84. To wonder at the transcursion of Comets.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. vi. § 6. The transcursion of Italians hither, added much to the discovery of the Papal abominations.
1665. Hooke, Microgr., xxxv. 166. To impede, for the greatest part, the transcursion of the Air.
2. fig. A running through a subject in discourse.
1641. H. L’Estrange, God’s Sabbath, 55. Not to expatiate too farre in collaterall transcursions.
1657. Howell, Londinop., 41. Having made a short transcursion through the Government of the City of London.
3. Passage, lapse (of time).
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 44. Wisedome is the Daughter of Experience, which is gotten by the transcursion of Time. Ibid., 288. Nor was transcursion of time needfull in this case.
