Definition of Transeunt

1. Adjective. Of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind.

Exact synonyms: Transient
Category relationships: Philosophy
Antonyms: Immanent

Definition of Transeunt

1. Adjective. (philosophy of a mental act) Emanant; producing an effect outside of the mind. Compare (term immanent). ¹

2. Adjective. (philosophy) Passing out or operating beyond itself; transitive; opposed to immanent (transient, OED def. 2) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transeunt

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transeunt

transept
transeptal
transepts
transequatorial
transequatorially
transes
transesophageal
transesterase
transesterification
transesterifications
transesterified
transesterifies
transesterify
transesterifying
transethmoidal
transeunt (current term)
transeuntly
transf.
transfat
transfats
transfect
transfectable
transfectant
transfectants
transfected
transfecting
transfection

Literary usage of Transeunt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Space, Time, and Deity: The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow, 1916-1918 by Samuel Alexander (1920)
"All causality being the continuous passage of one motion or set of motions into a different one is transeunt. and im- Immanent causality is nothing but ..."

2. A Summary of the Roman Civil Law: Illustrated by Commentaries on and ...by Patrick Mac Chombaich De Colquhoun by Patrick Mac Chombaich De Colquhoun (1854)
"... transeunt. Limitation of actions unknown to the older law. ... —Actiones J^uae ad Heredes et in Heredes transeunt—Actiones Populates— Vindictam ..."

3. Metaphysic: In Three Books, Ontology, Cosmology, and Psychology by Hermann Lotze (1887)
"... a ' transeunt' operation can be banished from our view of the world and replaced by that of a harmony between independent inner developments of Things. ..."

4. An Introduction to Philosophy by Orlin Ottman Fletcher (1913)
"transeunt Activity. — So far we have represented activity as essentially immanent, as immediately related to internal changes in reality. ..."

5. Elements of Metaphysics by Alfred Edward Taylor (1903)
"Immanent and transeunt Causality : Consistent Pluralism must deny transeunt Causation ... Both transeunt and immanent Causality are ultimately appearance. ..."

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