transcendental

IPA: trænsʌndˈɛntʌɫ

(obsolete) A transcendentalist.
(philosophy, metaphysics, Platonism, Christian theology, usually in the plural) Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.

(philosophy) Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
Mystical or supernatural.
(algebra, number theory, field theory, of a number or an element of an extension field) Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).
(algebra, field theory, of an extension field) That contains elements that are not algebraic.

Examples of "transcendental" in Sentences

What struck me in his words was that what he defined as "transcendental and important" was not only the time he spent with his family and friends.
I apply the term transcendental to all knowledge which is not so much occupied with objects as with the mode of our cognition of these objects, so far as this mode of cognition is possible a priori.
"I apply the term transcendental to all knowledge which is not so much occupied with objects as with the mode of our cognition of these objects, so far as this mode of cognition is possible a priori."
Several hundred people completed the combined inventory, and when we reanalyzed the results, we found that a distinct and meaningful new time perspective, which we called the transcendental future, had emerged.