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Transgress vs Intransgressible - What's the difference?

transgress | intransgressible |

As a verb transgress

is to exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.

As an adjective intransgressible is

incapable of being transgressed; not to be passed over or crossed.

transgress

English

Verb

(es)
  • To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
  • * Dryden
    • surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law
  • To act in violation of some law.
  • * Milton
    • For man will hearken to his glozing lies, / And easily transgress the sole command.
  • To commit an offense; to sin.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Why give you peace to this imperate beast / That hath so long transgressed you?
  • (of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.

    • Related terms

    * transgression * transgressive * transgressor

    intransgressible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passed over or crossed.
    • (Holland)
    (Webster 1913)