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transmarine, a. (n.)|trɑːnsməˈriːn, træns-, -nz-|
[ad. L. transmarīnus, f. trans across + mare sea, after marine. Cf. F. transmarin (12th c. in Godef.).]
1. That is beyond the sea; born, existing, situated, or found on the other side of the sea; over-sea.
1583B. Melbancke Philotimus Aa j b, An aliaunt, or a transmarine straunger. 1610T. Higgons Serm. at Pauls Crosse 3 Mar. (1611) 45 It was borne in transmarine and forraine parts. 1671F. Phillips Reg. Necess. 329 Purchasers of Transmarine Wares and Commodities. 1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 723 Normandy, and the King's other Transmarine Dominions. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. vi. 193 Contemporary authors..speak of the Scots, as a transmarine people. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 189 If it [India] were the sole transmarine appendage to the crown.
2. Crossing or extending across the sea.
1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 84 Species [of birds] which are known to make long transmarine migrations. 1908Sci. Amer. 15 Feb. 106/1 The remarkable transmarine railroad which is under construction from the mainland of Florida to Key West. 1908F. Harrison in Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. Ser. iii. III. 38 Pitt made all European questions subordinate to his transmarine, world-wide ambitions and schemes.
†B. n. One born or dwelling beyond the sea; a native or inhabitant of a transmarine country.
1596Warner Alb. Eng. xi. lxv. (1602) 280 Perhaps, vnpossible..My loue should equall his, or I a trans-Marine be wrought. 1633Heywood Eng. Trav. ii. ii, I am, quoth he, A Trans-marine by birth. |