See Also: quintuplet(medicine)
quintuplet(dictionary)
quintuplet(dictionary)

transcendental (iou) and quintuplet (oh)


transcendental (iou)



transcendental adjective & noun. E17.
[medieval Latin transcendentalis, formed as TRANSCENDENT: see -AL1.]
A. adjective.
Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the divine as opp. to the natural or moral world. Only in E17.
Philosophy.
a. In scholastic philosophy, = TRANSCENDENT adjective 2a. M17.
b. Chiefly in Kantian philosophy, presupposed in and necessary to experience; a priori. L18.
c. In Schellingian philosophy, explaining matter and objective things as products of the subjective mind. E20.
= TRANSCENDENT adjective 1. E18.
iron.: Burke These considerations..were below the transcendental dignity of the Revolution Society.
b. Superrational, superhuman, supernatural. E19.
A. Guinness I had witnessed something..transcendental and very human.
c. Abstract, metaphysical; vague, obscure. M19.
B. Jowett An unmeaning and transcendental conception.
d. Esp. in Emersonian thought: regarding the divine as the guiding principle in man. M19.
Math. Not able to be produced by (a finite number of) the ordinary algebraical operations of addition, multiplication, involution, or their inverse operations; expressible, in terms of one variable, only in the form of an infinite series (as, for example, the logarithmic, sine, and exponential functions). E18.
Special collocations: transcendental argument: to prove the existence of something as a necessary presupposition. Transcendental Meditation a method of silent Meditation and the repetition of a mantra, based on Eastern mysticism, used to promote relaxation and detachment. Transcendental Meditator a person who practises Transcendental Meditation. transcendental object a real (unknown and unknowable) object. transcendental unity unity brought about by cognition.
b. noun. A transcendental conception, term, or quantity. E17.
? Transcendental Meditation is a proprietary name in the US.
transcenden'tality noun (rare) transcendental quality M19.
transcendentali'zation noun the action or an act of transcendentalizing; an instance of this: M20.
transcendentalize verb trans. make transcendent or transcendental M19.
transcendentally adverb E19.

quintuplet (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Origin: quintuple 'five times' (16-21 centuries), from Late Latin quintuplex, from Latin quintus 'fifth']
one of five babies born to the same mother at the same time
-see also quadruplet quadruplet, sextuplet sextuplet