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† transmeˈridian, a. (n.) Obs. rare.
[f. trans- 7 + L. meridiān-us meridian.]
Beyond the or a meridian. In quot. absol. as n., the region beyond the meridian in the Atlantic which separates the New from the Old World; the Western Hemisphere.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxvi. 63 It micht have cuming in schortar quhyll Fra Calzecot and the new-fund Yle, The partis of Transmeridiane; Quhilk to considder is ane pane. |