Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Transcendent \Tran*scend"ent\, a. [L. transcendens, -entis, p.
   pr. of transcendere to transcend: cf. F. transcendant, G.
   transcendent.]
   1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence;
      surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent
      valor.

            Clothed with transcendent brightness. --Milton.

   2. (Kantian Philos.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the
      limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and
      speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the
      human intellect.

Source : WordNet®

transcendent
     adj 1: beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or
            understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject
            the notion of any transcendent reality beyond
            thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought
            itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of
            lifer" [syn: {unknowable}]
     2: exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in
        excellence [syn: {surpassing}]