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transmontane, a.|trɑːnsˈmɒnteɪn, træns-, -mɒnˈteɪn, -nz-|
[In quot. c 1400 a. OF. transmontane adj. and n., altered form of tramontane, pole-star, north pole, also transmontanie north wind (Godef.); in later use ad. L. transmontānus: see tramontane.]
1. Dwelling or situated beyond, or on the other side of, the mountains; = tramontane A. 1.
a. From the Italian point of view: North of the Alps.
1727Bailey vol. II, Transmontane, dwelling or growing beyond the Mountains. 1826K. Digby Broadst. Hon. ii. Tancredus (1846) II. 20 The Britons, English, and other transmontane people. 1857Fraser's Mag. LVI. 503 The proud citizens of Rome witnessed with indignation the influx of a crowd of transmontane artists. 1880J. Nichol Byron viii. 139 To abandon their transmontane plans, and agree to take up their head-quarters at Pisa.
b. In reference to other mountains, e.g. the Grampians in Scotland, the Rocky Mountains in N. America, the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. Also of traffic, across or over the mountains.
1884Science 22 Feb. 220/1 Keeping back the migration..in order to monopolize this transmontane commerce. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 124 The transmontane towns. 1897D. L. Leonard in Home Missionary (N.Y.) Jan. 450 Just now [1842–6] it was that the entire transmontane region was added to the Union. 1900W. Watt Aberdeen & Banff i. 4 The northern or transmontane Picts.
†2. transmontane star, also absol. transmontane, the north pole-star; = tramontane B. 1. Obs.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xvii. 180 In þat lond, ne in many othere beȝonde þat, noman may see the sterre transmontane,..þat wee clepen the lode-sterre. Ibid., The sterre þat is clept the transmontayne. Ibid. 181 Aȝen þat transmontayne is the toþer sterre, þat is clept Antartyke.
Hence † transmonˈtanian a. Obs. rare—1, of or pertaining to the non-Italian section of the Roman Church: cf. transalpine 1 c.
1624T. Scott Aphorisms of State 8 Carion, Auentine, Cuspinianus, and other Transmontanian Writings. |