TRANSGRESS', verb transitive [Latin transgressus, transgredior; trans and gradior, to pass.] 1. To pass over or beyond any limit; to surpass. 2. In a moral sense, to overpass any rule prescribed as the limit of duty; to break or violate a law, civil or moral. To transgress a divine law, is sin. Legislators should not transgress laws of their own making. TRANSGRESS', verb intransitive To offend by violating a law; to sin. Chron 2.
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