transconfessional (OED 1975) 1966 _Theology Today_ 23 (July) 239 It has indeed been said that the sacramental affirmations of the Scots Confession can lay claim to a validity that is transconfessional: not just reformiert but reformatorisch. http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/search/display-page.asp?Path=/jul1966/v23-2-article6.htm --Ben Zimmer