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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. L.

transcursio

a passing over. See

A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion.

[Obs.]

Howell.

Noun.

[supra.] A rambling or ramble; a passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation; as the transcursion of a comet.

I am to make often transcursions into the neighboring forests as I pass along.

[Note: Excursion has in a great measure superseded this word.]

transcursion ‎(plural transcursions)

(obsolete) A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84:
  "And if Man were out of the world, who were then left to view the face of Heaven, to wonder at the transcursion of Comets […] "
- Francis Bacon
  In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.