transgress

transgress
    v 1: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises;
         "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or
         human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" [syn:
         {transgress}, {offend}, {infract}, {violate}, {go against},
         {breach}, {break}] [ant: {keep}, {observe}]
    2: spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline;
       "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island"
    3: commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law [syn:
       {sin}, {transgress}, {trespass}]
    4: pass beyond (limits or boundaries) [syn: {transgress},
       {trespass}, {overstep}]
    

Transgress \Trans*gress"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transgressed};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Transgressing}.] [Cf. F. transgresser. See
   {Transgression}.]
   1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. [R.]
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            Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the ?imit of
      duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
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            For man will hearken to his glozing lies,
            And easily transgress the sole command. --Milton.
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   3. To offend against; to vex. [Obs.]
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            Why give you peace to this imperate beast
            That hath so long transgressed you ?  --Beau. & Fl.
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Transgress \Trans*gress"\, v. i.
   To offend against the law; to sin.
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         Who transgressed in the thing accursed.  --I Chron. ii.
                                                  7.
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61 Moby Thesaurus words for "transgress":
      advance upon, breach, breach the law, break, break bounds,
      break the law, care naught for, circumvent the law, commit a crime,
      commit sin, contravene, defy, disobey, disobey the law, disregard,
      disregard the law, do amiss, do violence to, do wrong, encroach,
      err, exceed, fall from grace, flout, go astray, go beyond,
      go counter to, go too far, go wrong, ignore, infract, infringe,
      intrude, invade, irrupt, know no bounds, lapse, make an inroad,
      misbehave, not conform, not heed, not keep, not listen, not mind,
      not observe, offend, overstep, overstep the bounds,
      refuse to cooperate, scoff at, set at defiance, set at naught,
      set naught by, sin, trample on, trample underfoot, trample upon,
      trespass, usurp, violate, violate the law