transgress : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: transgress	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for transgress
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
transgress v act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" Synonym(s): transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break Antonym(s): keep, observe spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline; "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island" commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law Synonym(s): sin, transgress, trespass pass beyond (limits or boundaries) Synonym(s): transgress, trespass, overstep
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Transgress \Trans*gress"\, v. i. To offend against the law; to sin. Who transgressed in the thing accursed. --I Chron. ii. 7.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Transgress \Transgress"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transgressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Transgressing}.] [Cf. F. transgresser. See {Transgression}.] 1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. [R.] Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. --Dryden. 2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the [?]imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral. For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress* the sole command. --Milton. 3. To offend against; to vex. [Obs.] Why give you peace to this imperate beast That hath so long transgressed you ? --Beau. & Fl.