transcursion

Noun

 * 1)  A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
 * 2) * 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"