transcur

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

transcur (third-person singular simple present transcurs, present participle transcurring, simple past and past participle transcurred)

1. (obsolete) To run or rove to and fro, to flit
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     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. (probably nonstandard) To transpire, to occur

• transcurrence
• transcurrent

• “transcur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Currants, currants