Meaning of transcendent

tran•scend•ent

1. going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
2. superior or supreme.
3. (of the Deity) transcending the universe, time, etc. Cf. immanent (def. 3).
1. Scholasticism.above all possible modes of the infinite.
2. Kantianism.transcending experience; not realizable in human experience. Cf. transcendental (defs. 5a, c).
3. (in modern realism) referred to, but beyond, direct apprehension; outside consciousness.

1. a transcendental function.