tran·scen·dent (trān-sěn'dənt) - adj.
1. Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
2. Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor".
3. Philosophy
--- a. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
--- b. In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
4. Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.