transcend

verb

1. (transitive)To pass beyond the limits of something.

   “We cannot transcend what we refuse to face.”

   “such personal popes, emperors, or elective kings, as shall transcend their limits”

   “Shepard: What do you want from us? Slaves? Resources? My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation. Independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence.”

2. (transitive)To surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.

   “How much her worth transcended all her kind.”

3. (obsolete)To climb; to mount.

   “lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds”

   “your Muse soars up to the upper, and transcending that too, takes her fight among the Celestial bodies”