transcend

To pass beyond the limits of something.

such personal popes, emperors, or elective kings, as shall transcend their limits

Shepard: What do you want from us? Slaves? Resources? My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation. Independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence.

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

How much her worth transcended all her kind.

To climb; to mount.

lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds

your Muse soars up to the upper, and transcending that too, takes her fight among the Celestial bodies