transpierce

[ trans-peers ]

verb (used with object)

, trans·pierced, trans·pierc·ing.

1. to pierce through; penetrate; pass through.

transpierce

/ trænsˈpɪəs /

verb

1. tr to pierce through

Word History and Origins

Origin of transpierce¹

1585–95; trans- + pierce; compare French transpercer

Example Sentences

To feel the new life flutter mystic wing; Like to a lark to feel one's soul upspring, Transpierce the very limit of the sky, And toss its challenge to Eternity!

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Transpierce, trans-pērs′, v.t. to pierce through: to permeate.

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How do Thy clear, still eyes transpierce our souls, As gazing through them toward the Father-throne In a pathetical, full Deity, Serenely as the stars gaze through the air Straight on each other!

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Yet, one cry I, too, would drive up like a column erect, Marble to marble, from my heart to heaven, A monument of anguish to transpierce And overtop your vapoury complaints Expressed from feeble woes.

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They do not buy jewels worth so many hundreds or tens—but transpierce the actual coin, and of them compose a necklace of whose value there can be no doubt, and whose fashion is not very variable.

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