Transcur

verb

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Verb
  1. 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. 2
    To transpire, to occur

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"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"

Etymology

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

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