TRANSGRESS', v.t. [L. transgressus, transgredior; trans and gradior, to pass.]
1. To pass over or beyond any limit; to surpass.
2. In a moral sense, to overpass any rule prescribed as the limit of duty; to break or violate a law, civil or moral. To transgress a divine law, is sin. Legislators should not transgress laws of their own making.
TRANSGRESS', v.i. To offend by violating a law; to sin.
Chron 2.
