a. rare. [f. TRANS- 4 + HUMAN; after It. trasumanar in Dante.] Beyond the human; superhuman. So Transhumanate [It. Dante trasumanar, Florio tra(n)shumanare], Transhumanize vbs., trans. to make transhuman; Transhumanation (Florio tra(n)s(h)umanatione], a making or becoming transhuman.
1812. Cary, Dante, Parad., I. 68. Words may not tell of that transhuman change [orig. l. 70 trasumanar significar per verba Non si porio].
1841. Gallenga, Italy, i. (1848), I. 135. Dante’s contact with God was trans-humanating.
1847. Oxf. to Rome (ed. 2), 215. A transhumanation takes place.
1872. Lowell, Dante, Prose Wks. 1890, IV. 168. Souls … transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation.
1885. A. J. Butler, Parad. of Dante, I. 70. To signify in words transhumanation were impossible.
1892. C. E. Norton, Dante’s Parad., i. 4. Transhumanizing cannot be signified in words.
