a. rare. [f. TRANS- 1 + L. splendēnt-em, pr. pple. of splendēre to shine, be bright. Cf. resplendent.] Brilliantly translucent; resplendent in the highest degree.
a. 1541. Wyatt, Compl. Absence of Love, 49. The clere cristall, the bright transplendant glasse.
1622. R. Preston, Godly Man’s Inquis., i. 16. Our weakenesse is so great, and his Maiestie on the other side is glorious and transplendent.
1854. J. S. C. Abbott, Napoleon (1855), I. xi. 198. Those energies now so transplendent on the banks of the Mississippi and the Ohio.
Hence Transplendently adv., with surpassing splendor.
1664. H. More, Antid. Idolatry, ii. 36. The Divinity … is hypostatically, vitally and transplendently residing in this Humanity of Christ.
