Defn: Liable to sin; subject to transgressthe divine law.
To transgress the moral or divine law; to commit a crime; to stumble; to sin.
Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command.
Therefore God sets before Adam and Eve this, as a punishment, if they should transgress his command: "In the day that thou eatest of this tree thou shalt surely die the death.
Because the lust of men must be curbed by the chains and penalties of the laws, that it transgress not all bounds.
He spareth none, neither knoweth he how to show mercy to those that transgresshis law.
Suppose a child doth grievously transgress against and offend his father; is the relation between them therefore dissolved?
You may transgress one another's lines without danger of falling dead on the ground as common men would do if they broke taboo-lines.
If any man dare to transgress this line without leave, I drown him in his canoe.
If any man dare totransgress this line without leave, I burn him to ashes.
They cannot transgress the control of these laws in one detail or particular.
The animal is the captive of nature and cannot transgress the rules and laws thereof.
The meaning of his speech seems to be that Anfortas was unaware how far Parzival himself was acquainted with the rôle assigned to him, and feared to transgress the Grail's commandment, and risk the promised healing by saying too much.
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients?
But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition?
To neglect the more simple and ordinary succors of medicine when absolutely necessary, is to transgress that law of charity which every one owes to himself.
Jesus answered, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
They asked, Why do thy disciplestransgress the tradition of the elders?
Go straight on then as thou hast been commanded, and he also who hath turned to God with thee, and let him transgress no more.
And let those who transgress his command beware, lest some present trouble befall them, or a grievous chastisement befall them, hereafter.
And that no one be allowed to transgress the aforesaid canons, or to receive other canons besides them, supposititiously set forth by some who have attempted to make a traffic of the truth.
And if he shall dare to transgress these decrees, he shall be deposed from the rank which he enjoys.
Whoever dares to transgress this command is subject before all to the fearful judgment of Almighty God, and then also will be liable to the punishment for such as despise the imperial commands.
In the very nature of things it jeopardizes their stability, and it is always unsafe to transgress the laws of nature.
The closer we keep to the laws of nature the nearer we are to good health, and yet how many persons there are who pay no attention to natural laws, but absolutely transgress them, even against their own natural inclination.
They had no grounds for hostilities whatever, but those whose creed is 'Might makes Right,' are always ready to transgress all laws to obtain their desires.
The rich purchase indulgences, but the greedy priests only grant them for a limited period, and on expiration of the term, a new permit to transgress the laws must be purchased.
For it is proper for God and for every one who is in a divine estate to be angry, to reprove and punish, namely, on account of those very persons who transgress this and the other commandments.
For we still stumble daily and transgress because we live in the world among men who do us much harm and give us cause for impatience, anger, revenge, etc.
Every person who shall in this respect transgress our will, shall be deprived forever of our imperial protection for his vessels, as well as of the right of fitting them out in future.
Behold, you have been entrusted with these things, but how strict were your commandments; and remember also the promises which were made to you, if you did not transgress them.
Those who kept the commandments of the Lord on this land, through the prayer of faith obtained the promise, that if their descendants should transgress and fall away, a record should be kept and in the last days come to their children.
Generally, however, it is the known incapacity of the ocean to transgress its continents that supplies poets with illustrations.
Those amongst them that will transgress (the commands of the Brahmanas) shall be reported to the king.
Him by knowing whom persons of cleansed souls transgress this world, Him who has not been expressed by Vedic mantras and words.
