Transcend vs Superceed - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between transcend and superceed

is that transcend is to pass beyond the limits of something while superceed is .

(en verb)

to pass beyond the limits of something.

* Francis Bacon

such popes as shall transcend their limits

to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.

* Dryden

How much her worth transcended all her kind.

(obsolete) To climb; to mount.

lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds

(Howell)

* transcendence * transcendency * transcendent * transcendental * transcendentalism * transcendentalist * transcendentally * transcending