— transcendentalist , n. , adj.
/tran'sen den"tl iz'euhm, -seuhn-/ , n.
1. transcendental character, thought, or language.
2. Also called transcendental philosophy . any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical: in the U.S., associated with Emerson.
[ 1795-1805; Transcendentalismus. See TRANSCENDENTAL, -ISM ]