transpierce
English
Verb
transpierce (third-person singular simple present transpierces, present participle transpiercing, simple past and past participle transpierced)
- (transitive) To pierce through; to pass through.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Now, while the angry trumpet sounds alarms,
And dying groans transpierce the wounded air […]
- 1619, Michael Drayton, “[Odes.] To the New Yeere.”, in Cyril Brett, editor, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1907, →OCLC, lines 19–21, page 59:
- Giue her th' Eoan brightnesse, / Wing'd with that subtill lightnesse, / That doth trans-pierce the Ayre; […]
- 2010, John Howard Griffin, Nuni:
- The upblaze of reflected heat burns my cheeks and eyes. Her body swims before me, spangled and transpierced by shafts of light caught in my tears. I croak that I am sorry for having invaded her hut.
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