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transcur

verb

  1. To run or rove to and fro, to flit

    obsolete

    For astonishment , it is caused by the fixing of the mind upon one object of cogitation , whereby it doth not spatiate and transcur, as it useth ; for in wonder the spirits fly not , as in fear ; but only settle , and are made less apt to move

  2. To transpire, to occur

Where it comes from

From Latin transcurrere, transcursum, from trans (“across, over”) + currere (“to run”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry transcur (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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