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In the 1st century BCE, Julius Caesar used this verb to mean "to board" enemy ships, of course, while the Roman historian Livy used it when recounting Hannibal's crossing of the Alps with his elephants.
In medieval philosophy, the present participle of this verb was used to refer to anything beyond the natural order, chiefly to theological speculations or to God himself.
For Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), anything beyond all possible experience and exceeding all knowledge is "transcendent." In this respect, the adjective is the opposite of "immanent."
