Definition of "transgressed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of transgress. (verb)

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• "None of them paid any outward attention to their "sheets," although Alfred and Gracie spread theirs with elaborate care; they leaned their elbows on the table, they made loud, swooping sounds with their lips, and, in short, transgressed every law known to civilized life."
• "The Rabbis determined that whoever now called Sarah by her former name transgressed a positive commandment (JT Berakhot 1: 6, 4 [a])."
• "If the votaries of the Bible interpreted it faithfully, they would say: man originally transgressed, that is, made a mistake; for to transgress, to fail, to make a mistake, all mean the same thing."