maritimeadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈmarᵻtʌɪm/, U.S.

/ˈmɛrəˌtaɪm/

Forms:

α. 1500s maritayne, 1500s myrytayne, 1600s maretine, 1600s maritan, 1600s maritane, 1600s maritin, 1600s marratine, 1600s–1700s maritine.

β. 1500s– maritime, 1600s marittim, 1600s marittime, 1600s–1700s maritim; Scottish pre-1700 maretym.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French maritime; Latin maritimus.

Etymology: < Middle French, French maritime (1336) or its etymon classical Latin maritimus relating to the sea, situated near the sea, nautical < mari- , mare sea (see mare n.⁴) + -timus , suffix (occurring in fīnitimus neighbouring, lēgitimus legitime adj., and forming superlatives such as intimus intime adj., ultimus ultime adj.); in α. forms via Middle French maritain (c1470), maritin (c1500) marine, maritime, alterations (with substitution of suffix: compare -ain -an suffix, -in -ine suffix¹) of Middle French maritime. Compare Italian marittimo (a1484), Spanish marítimo (1493), Portuguese marítimo (16th cent.).Uses as noun are perhaps after classical Latin maritimus (masculine) person living near the sea, post-classical Latin maritima (feminine) coastal region (Vetus Latina; already in classical Latin as neuter plural noun), mariner (c1150 in a British source). With maritime court , maritime law (see Compounds 1) compare post-classical Latin curia maritima, lex maritima (both 14th cent. in British sources). The pronunciation of the final syllable was originally /tɪm/, as in the parallel intime, legitime, and ultime; pronunciation homophonous with time seems to have been first recorded in British dictionaries of the 1880s (Stormonth, Annandale, and Encycl. Dict.), but the older pronunciation is still given in Webster 1934.

A. adj.

1. Of (a member of) a fighting force: intended for service at sea. Cf. marine n. 2b. See also maritime regiment n. at Compounds 1.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [adjective]

maritime1550

α.

1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Fvij Therle of Arundell..w^t a puissaunt army myrytayne dystroyed..all the nauy of Flaunders.

1652 H. Carey tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations United Provinces i. vii. 12 Of their Maretine Forces [It. Delle forze maritime]. Four considerations may also be had concerning their Forces at Sea.

1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 49 Without much weakening the Maritin forces.

1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 180 We hope for a Maritine Force betimes in these seas.

β. a1820 J. Woodhouse Life Crispinus Scriblerus iii, in Life & Poet. Wks. (1896) I. 55/1 More than maritime Crews, and martial Corps, That guard their dwellings, and protect their shores.1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 419/2 In the beginning of Queen Anne's reign (1702), six regiments of maritime soldiers were raised.1930 Times 8 Nov. 8/7 A movement has been set on foot for the formation of a Maritime Command of the Legion of Frontiersmen.1994 Forum (Markham, Ont.) June 10/2 Our maritime forces contributed to the success of a counter drug operation on the west coast.

a. Connected, associated, or dealing with shipping, naval matters, navigation, seaborne trade, etc.

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society > travel > travel by water > [adjective] > on the sea

nautical1552

oversea1552

maritimal1587

maritime1588

nautic1613

seagoing1895

α.

c1615 God & the King (1663) 25 In this maritane passage he submitteth himself unto the conduct and direction of the pilot.

1675 J. Ogilby Britannia Ded. You have laid open to us all those Maritin Itineraries.

1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. 150 The Chamberlain..exerciseth his Jurisdiction amongst Marriners; and what relates to Maritine affairs.

β. 1588 Ld. Burghley Copie Let. to B. Mendoza 20 For the Nauie of England..bargaines are already made..for great store of al maritime prouisions.1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 16 The English people are maruellous expert in maritime actions.a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 159 Novogorode and Plæsco, two greatest mart ‘maritime or traide’ towns..of all the easteren parts.1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 113 His want of skill in maritime affairs.1706 Act 6 Anne c. 11 §12 All reviews, reductions or suspensions of the sentences in maritime cases.1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xiii. 405 In the maritime reign of queen Elizabeth.1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 361 To prevent the enemy's maritime communication between Bayonne and Santoña.1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 43 A high rate of interest, termed Maritime Interest, or Bottomry Premium, being charged.1912 G. O. Trevelyan George III & Fox I. i. 18 The elder Pitt..was a maritime strategist of the highest order.1978 Navy News Oct. 1/1 Sea kings from H.M.S. Gannet winched 14 men to safety after their Dutch maritime patrol aircraft ditched in heavy seas.1994 Daily Tel. 7 Dec. 25/2 Our history has been that of a seafaring people, builders of the greatest maritime empire.

b. Characteristic of a seaman; sailor-like.Generally used to suggest the traditional stereotype of a hardened or experienced sailor.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [adjective]

tar-breech1582

nautic1613

tarpaulin1647

altumal1711

tarpaulian1719

maritime1743

tarrish1841

1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas Ded. 5 The following Pages..are written in a plain maritime Stile.

1843 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. I. ix. 185 We were visited by five maritime, nay buccaneering, looking gentlemen.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 Solomon Gills..was far from having a maritime appearance.

1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat viii. 122 This sailor had an altogether maritime ignorance of women.

1952–7 S. J. Perelman Road to Miltown (1957) 196 He lent a maritime tang to the meal by snarling..‘Belay there, ye scut’ and dancing a hornpipe with the waitress.

1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 358/1 Norwegian steam, manpower; muscle power. A little jocular use, esp. maritime use.

a. Of a place: bordering the sea. Of a person: living near or by the sea.Obsolete in predicative use.

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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near coast > [adjective]

lowa1398

maritimal1587

seaboard1590

sea-bordering1597

maritime1598

maritimate1601

marine1610

blue-washed1790

bismarine1808

α.

1606 T. Palmer Ess. Meanes to make Trauailes more Profitable ii. 84 If the Countrey be maretine, and ioyning to the sea, what, and what store of fish the coast aboundeth with.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Maritan, bordering on the sea.

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie ii. vi. 109 Ilanders..specially their maritine parts.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 365 Tents, filled with maritine people, that were fled hither from the Sea coast.

1652 H. Carey tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations United Provinces i. vii. 12 There are very many [ships] in the Marratine parts of Friesland.

1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders i. iv. 56 The City of Embden,..one of the most considerable Towns of all the Maretine part.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 398 Ercoco and the less Maritine Kings Mombaza [etc.] .

β. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 122 If the confines of the Kingdome bee Maritime or sea coast.1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 489 To inhabit the maritime cities and townes, neere unto the sea side.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 225 Brittany (a marittime part of France).1654 R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 19 Comparing them with the Maritime Women of other Seas (for the most part fowl, ugly, and weather-beaten).1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces iii. 128 The opening and cleansing of the old Channel of the Rhine..by which the Town of Leyden would grow Maritime.1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. v. 87 Seamen, who dwell in the Maritime Parts.1765 G. Colman in tr. Terence Comedies 96 (note) Rhamnus, Piræus, &c. are to be understood as maritime towns of Attica.1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 1 Devonshire is a maritime county.1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. iv. 86 Though a maritime people, on a..line of sea-coast, they were ignorant of the art of fishing.1877 T. Twiss & H. D. Jencken in H. D. Jencken York & Antwerp Rules 20 The Rules..for a uniform system..for all maritime countries..are appended.1907 W. Jochelson in Internat. Congr. Americanists XV. 121 The subterranean Koryak house is still in use among the maritime Koryak.1928 Jrnl. Ecol. 16 254 The maritime districts..suffer from the frequent sea-fogs and low clouds.1987 R. P. Jhabvala Three Continents i. 97 The small maritime cemetery with its..very simple graves of fishermen and sailors.

b. Of an animal, plant, etc.: living on or close to the sea coast.

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1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 409 The antients looked upon the olive as a maritime-tree.

1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 418 Statice,..a beautiful maritime genus.

1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 525 Undrained and marshy land is..best suited to this bird [sc. the lapwing], whose habits are partly maritime.

1926 Jrnl. Ecol. 14 11 The following maritime and submaritime plants were met with on the tops of the cliffs..between Beachy Head and Seaford.

1953 Ecol. Monogr. 23 316/2 The maritime communities with which this study is concerned are those plant communities in which the presence of the species is directly or indirectly determined by salt water.

1988 E. Wood et al. Sea Life Brit. & Ireland 127 Where sand from the beach becomes piled into dunes, other maritime plants occur.

c. Physical Geography. Of climate: influenced by the sea; spec. = oceanic adj. 4. Frequently opposed to continental.Cf. earlier marine adj. 3b.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > of or relating to climate > specific types of climate

excessive1830

insular1830

oceanic1849

continental1865

marine1865

Mediterranean1888

maritime1939

1878 Chambers's Encycl. III. 78/2 Maritime places..have a more equal temperature..than more inland or continental places.]

1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) iii. 62 (table) Types of Rainfall..temperate continental..maritime temperate.

1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm ii. 12 The climate, although showing marked local variations, is of a temperate maritime type free from extreme conditions, but with definite seasons through the year.

1966 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 77 1089 The ‘thermal maximum’ was not well developed on the coast, probably because summer temperatures were depressed as rising post-glacial sea level made the climate maritime.

1991 National Trust Mag. Spring 21 (caption) Native and exotic plants flourish in the mild maritime climate at Plas-yn-Rhiw.

a. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or existing in the sea. Now rare.

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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective]

floodyc1420

marine?1440

seaish1530

maritime1610

marinal1614

Neptunianc1620

aequoreal1647

thalassian1851

thalassic1860

sea-air1945

1610 S. Daniel Tethys Festival in Order & Solemnitie Creation Prince Henrie sig. F2^v The rest of the ornaments consisted of maske-heads, spouting water, swannes, festons of maritime weedes, great shels, and such like.

1624 B. Jonson Neptunes Triumph 454 A maritime Palace, or the house of Oceanus.

1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad vi. xviii. 139 His Body naked,..But with Maritine little Animals By Hundreds, cover'd.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. xiv. 252 The Maritime Air and steames.

1715 J. Barker Exilius (1719) I. ii. 73 We found our selves deliver'd from violent Death, and maritime Dangers, but expos'd to the Misery of wanting every Thing.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 258 That no rude savour maritime invade The nose of nice nobility!

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 139 The maritime winds unite their efforts toward the autumnal equinox.

1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage v. 67 An interesting maritime landscape.

1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave ii. 43 The cloudlets in one part of the pale clean sky had funny curls, and were all alike as on a maritime horizon, all hanging together in a delicate flock.

1984 G. Vanderhaeghe My Present Age (1986) xii. 174 I could remember the depth-charges..rolling end over end against a sky of maritime blue, falling with a heavy splash into the sea.

b. Meteorology. Relating to or designating moist air masses formed over the ocean. Opposed to continental.

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1929 Q. Jrnl. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 55 81 (table) Type of air at Valentia as indicated on the Bergen chart... Genuine polar. Maritime polar.

1939 Meteorol. Gloss. (Meteorol. Office) (ed. 3) 143 Maritime polar air is often..of arctic origin, but it may have originated over cold parts of the oceans.

1960 Aeroplane 99 624/1 The dew-point front is the boundary between moist ‘maritime tropical’ air..and dry ‘tropical continental’ air.

1967 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 370 Only where the air of maritime origin is of sufficient depth to allow the development of cumulonimbus can there be rain.

1982 R. G. Barry & R. J. Chorley Atmosphere, Weather & Climate (ed. 4) v. 198 The influence of maritime air masses can extend deep into Europe because there are few topographic barriers to airflow.

1988 S. Afr. Jrnl. Sci. 84 39 A notable increase in the incidence of hail in December followed by a rise in general rain days in January reflect the intrusion of maritime tropical air into the area.

5. Usually in form Maritime. Originally: of or relating to the provinces of the eastern coast of British North America. Subsequently: of or relating to the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Maritime Provinces n. at Compounds 2).

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1828 J. McGregor (title) Historical and descriptive sketches of the maritime colonies of British America.

1871 R. L. Dashwood Chiploquorgan xv. 251 As has been before mentioned a Maritime Confederation would have been the best course to have commenced with.

1923 Dalhousie Rev. 3 211 We can understand why Maritime Union might find favour in Nova Scotia, as that fine province..would dominate the Acadian Government and Parliament absolutely.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. 9/4 Premiers Louis Robichaud, G. I. Smith and Alex Campbell will also meet with a man suggested to head a three-province commission to study Maritime co-operation.

1992 J. M. Bumsted Peoples of Canada vi. 182 The King government offered nothing more than an investigation of Maritime grievances by a royal commission.

B. n.

†a. A sea coast; a country or region adjoining the sea. Obsolete.

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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near coast > [noun] > maritime district

marinec1313

maritime1591

shorea1616

sea-border1686

shore-land1807

littoral1828

1591 Declar. Great Troubles 5 Certayne skroles or beadrolles of names of men dwelling in sundry partes of our Countries,..but specially in the maritimes.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres Gloss. 251 Maritime is sea coast countrie, or countries adioyning vnto the sea.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. ii. 83 In the south Maritime and in Ethiopia.

1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 75 The General..comes up to the maritims of Mitylene, and hostilely invades them.

b. In plural Maritimes. = Maritime Provinces n. at Compounds 2. Dict. Canad. (1967) cites an 1806 source as the earliest evidence of this sense; however, the text quoted is in fact a 20th-cent. synopsis of the original document.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Canada > parts of

north-west1682

down east1817

Atlantic provinces1855

prairie province1873

prairie provinces1878

mainland1901

maritimes1926

Palliser triangle1934

Newfie1942

sand-hill1949

Near North1952

1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 July 1/2 Continuing his Maritime tour, Premier Meighan in an address here tonight again stressed his policy for the Maritimes.

1934 W. M. Whitelaw (title) The Maritimes and Canada before Confederation.

1938 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Ingleside viii. 58 The July night was unreasonably cold as even a summer night in the Maritimes sometimes is.

1947 G. Taylor Canada xvi. 385 The three small provinces linked as the Maritimes..together only amount to 1.5 per cent of the area of the Dominion.

1960 Times 21 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p. v/6 The salty Maritimes or the wide-open Prairies.

1986 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 30 Jan. d1/3 The folk art that existed in the Maritimes many generations before it emerged in the Prairie Provinces.

†2. A person living near the sea. Obsolete.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller beside sea

coast-man1580

maritimea1600

sea-borderer1599

sea-boarder1611

coaster1612

shoreman1650

Paralian1724

Orarian1869

bayman1904

cover1905

a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 5037 The maretyms that duelt neir be the cost..fled.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 55 Lycurgus was head of the country men, Megacles of the Maritimes.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. i. 230 The Greek and the barbarian, the epirot and the maritime.

Compounds

C1.

maritime insurance n.

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1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 406/2 A maritime insurance is a contract [etc.].

1942 Fortune 212/2 The lack of ships, translated into high freight and maritime insurance rates, is being reflected in the inflation spiral.

1991 Renaissance Q. 44 568 Day..describes..accounting, maritime insurance, the preference for small family firms, [etc.].

maritime position n.

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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Maritime positions, the intersection of the geographical coordinates of the latitudes and longitudes of places on the globe.

† maritime regiment n. Obsolete

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > marines

maritime regiment1668

marine1672

marine regiment1690

Marine Corps1798

Royal Marine1802

royals1826

RM1827

amphibe1831

1668 in L. Edye Hist. Marines (1893) I. 102 2 Maritim Regim^ts consisting of 26 Compa^nyes.

1684 Gen. & Compl. List Mil. Every Commission-officer 15 His Royal Highness the Duke of York and Albany's Marittime Regiment of Foot.

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Maritime Alps n. [after French Alpes Maritimes, Italian Alpi Marittime] the southern sector of the western division of the Alps, extending along the French–Italian border between the Côte d'Azur and the Cottian Alps.

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1789 Encycl. Brit. I. 500/1 From Savona to the springs of the Varus, where the Alps lie against the sea of Genoa, they are called Maritime, now le Montagne di Tenda.]

1833 Penny Cycl. I. 388/1 The rivers which have their rise in the Maritime Alps are numerous: on the Piedmontese side they are all tributary to the Po.

1898 W. J. Locke Idols xxiii. 320 The cool grey Maritime Alps, shimmering against the violet sky.

1994 Herald (Glasgow) 5 Jan. 18/2 Ross Finlay takes a Fiat Tipo turbo diesel for a spin on hallowed motorsport ground in the French Maritime Alps.

maritime court n. [compare post-classical Latin curia maritima (from 14th cent. in British sources)] a court which hears cases of maritime law.

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1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. §1. 14 The spiritual and maritime courts of this kingdom.

1879 Harper's Mag. Dec. 61/2 Prizes..were referred to the decision of the Maritime Court.

1990 C. R. Johnson Middle Passage (1991) ix. 100 Would you be prepared to..testify before a maritime court that your captain..lost control of his vessel?

maritime law n. the branch of international law dealing with shipping, ocean fishery, territorial and international waters, etc.; a body of laws applying to the territorial waters of a particular country.

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society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > maritime law

admiralty1419

Rhodian law1613

sea-law1613

admiralty law1676

maritime lawa1682

a1682 S. Clarke New Descr. World (1689) 219 The Isle of Oleron, is scituate against the French Province of Xaintoigne, South of the Isle of Rhee, famous for the Maritime Laws; established here by Richard King of England.

1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade at Hypotheca It was held that, by the maritime law, every contract of the master implies an hypothecation, but at common law it is not so.

1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 55 Maritime law, or international law, consists of opinions and precedents for the most part.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 235/2 The bill of gross adventure in French maritime law is an instrument making a loan on maritime security.

1991 U.S. News & World Rep. 27 May 62/2 Electives include Asian studies, international and maritime law and international banking.

maritime mile n. = nautical mile n. at nautical adj. and n. Compounds 2.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > mile > nautical mile

geometrical1597

maritime mile1632

geometric1670

nautical mile1730

knot1748

nautic mile1762

sea-mile1796

air mile1919

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 362 Two thousand and three hundred Maritine miles.

1726 Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 416 The Circumference was 6000 Feet, which i take to be the Standard of an Englsih maritime Mile, or the ¹/ ₆₀ part of a Degree upon the Equator.

1838 N. Amer. Rev. 46 536 The volcanic islands of the China Sea are 1,800 maritime miles distant.

1939 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 33 610 It was not until 1882 that six North Sea littoral states recognized that their jurisdiction extended only three maritime miles from their coasts.

2007 E. M. DeLoughrey Routes & Roots 21 Caribbean and Pacific Islanders were noted for..their ability to navigate thousands of maritime miles during an era when Europeans had not determined longitude.

maritime pine n. [compare French pin maritime (1680), Italian pino marittimo (1835)] a southern European pine, Pinus pinaster, with long paired needles and clustered cones, which is native to coastal areas, is often planted in order to bind sandy soil, and yields resin that is used as a source of high quality turpentine; also called cluster pine.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > cluster pine

pinaster1562

sea-pine1753

Mediterranean pine1760

maritime pine1850

cluster-pine1857

1850 G. Law tr. J. B. Boussingault Rural Econ. ii. 142 Colophony, or rosin, is extracted from different kinds of the genus Pinus. In the Landes, or sandy plains of Bordeaux, it is the maritime pine which yields it.

1894 H. M. Ward Laslett's Timber & Timber Trees (ed. 2) xxxi. 349 The Cluster Pine..much used in the south and west of France, where it is known as the Maritime Pine from the extensive planting on the coasts, yields a highly resinous reddish wood.

1914 W. J. Bean Trees & Shrubs Hardy in Brit. Isles II. 187 Cluster Pine, Maritime Pine..is, as its common name implies, admirably adapted for maritime localities.

1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 54/1 Of all two-needled pines, the species with the longest leaves,..is the cluster pine or maritime pine.., a southern European tree that thrives in coastal areas.

1987 K. Rushforth Tree Planting & Managem. (1990) 190/1 Maritime pine... This pine has long needles in pairs and large bright brown cones.

maritime power n. (a) a country having naval supremacy; (b) naval and sea air forces.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > air force > [noun]

maritime power1711

fourth arm1901

arm1908

air force1911

RFC1913

R.A.F.1918

Royal Air Force1918

U.S.A.A.F.1943

U.S.A.F.1947

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > [noun] > naval power > nation having

maritime power1711

ocean power1713

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun]

fleeta1000

floteOE

ship-ferda1122

navya1382

armyc1475

armada1533

class1596

naval1627

armadilla1685

Grand Fleet1696

armament1698

maritime power1711

1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 31 This is what best became us to do as a Maritime Power.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiii. 364 Britain..already assumed its natural and respectable station of a maritime power.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xvii. 167 They are relics of the grandeur of Genoa's palmy days—the days when she was a great commercial and maritime power several centuries ago.

1952 W. S. Churchill Second World War V. i. 3 ‘Maritime power’, a modern term expressing the combined strength of naval and air forces properly woven together.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 634/2 All maritime powers adopted the general design and it became customary to define battleships as dreadnoughts.

Maritime Provinces n. the Canadian Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, having coastlines on the Gulf of St Lawrence or the Atlantic Ocean; cf. sense B. 1b; see also Atlantic provinces n. at Atlantic adj. and n. Additions.

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1847 J. Roy Hist. Canada IV. i. 165 These Provinces are of two classes—first, the Inland Portions, watered only by great lakes and rivers, and, secondly, the Maritime Provinces.

1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxiv. 392 A wealthy manufacturer of New Brunswick had..left part of his fortune to endow a large number of scholarships to be distributed among the various high schools and academies of the Maritime Provinces.

1940 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Chron. iv. v. 728 Her deep, rather musical voice, with its Maritime Province accent.

1987 Canad. Geographic Oct. 96/2 Barachois is used extensively for a coastal saltwater pond on the south and west coast of Newfoundland, and along the Gulf of St. Lawrence shores of the three maritime provinces and Quebec.

maritime state n. †(a) the naval, as opposed to the military, component of a country's forces (obsolete); (b) a state or country bordering the sea.

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1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xiii. 405 The maritime state is nearly related to the former [sc. the military]: though much more agreeable to the principles of our free constitution.

1786 T. Jefferson Let. 9 July in Papers (1954) X. 112 How may the ultramontane territory be disposed of so as to produce the greatest..benefit to the inhabitants of the maritime states of the union?

1865 Times 2 Jan. To bring down on themselves the hostility of the most powerful maritime State.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 467/2 Alagoas, a maritime state of Brazil.

1992 P. Birnie & A. Boyle Internat. Law & Environment iv. 278 Maritime states were prepared to accept the principle of extended jurisdiction for specific purposes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	maritime
释义	maritimeadj.n. Brit. /ˈmarᵻtʌɪm/, U.S. /ˈmɛrəˌtaɪm/ Forms: α. 1500s maritayne, 1500s myrytayne, 1600s maretine, 1600s maritan, 1600s maritane, 1600s maritin, 1600s marratine, 1600s–1700s maritine. β. 1500s– maritime, 1600s marittim, 1600s marittime, 1600s–1700s maritim; Scottish pre-1700 maretym. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French maritime; Latin maritimus. Etymology: < Middle French, French maritime (1336) or its etymon classical Latin maritimus relating to the sea, situated near the sea, nautical < mari- , mare sea (see mare n.⁴) + -timus , suffix (occurring in fīnitimus neighbouring, lēgitimus legitime adj., and forming superlatives such as intimus intime adj., ultimus ultime adj.); in α. forms via Middle French maritain (c1470), maritin (c1500) marine, maritime, alterations (with substitution of suffix: compare -ain -an suffix, -in -ine suffix¹) of Middle French maritime. Compare Italian marittimo (a1484), Spanish marítimo (1493), Portuguese marítimo (16th cent.).Uses as noun are perhaps after classical Latin maritimus (masculine) person living near the sea, post-classical Latin maritima (feminine) coastal region (Vetus Latina; already in classical Latin as neuter plural noun), mariner (c1150 in a British source). With maritime court , maritime law (see Compounds 1) compare post-classical Latin curia maritima, lex maritima (both 14th cent. in British sources). The pronunciation of the final syllable was originally /tɪm/, as in the parallel intime, legitime, and ultime; pronunciation homophonous with time seems to have been first recorded in British dictionaries of the 1880s (Stormonth, Annandale, and Encycl. Dict.), but the older pronunciation is still given in Webster 1934. A. adj. 1. Of (a member of) a fighting force: intended for service at sea. Cf. marine n. 2b. See also maritime regiment n. at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [adjective] maritime1550 α. 1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Fvij Therle of Arundell..w^t a puissaunt army myrytayne dystroyed..all the nauy of Flaunders. 1652 H. Carey tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations United Provinces i. vii. 12 Of their Maretine Forces [It. Delle forze maritime]. Four considerations may also be had concerning their Forces at Sea. 1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 49 Without much weakening the Maritin forces. 1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 180 We hope for a Maritine Force betimes in these seas. β. a1820 J. Woodhouse Life Crispinus Scriblerus iii, in Life & Poet. Wks. (1896) I. 55/1 More than maritime Crews, and martial Corps, That guard their dwellings, and protect their shores.1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 419/2 In the beginning of Queen Anne's reign (1702), six regiments of maritime soldiers were raised.1930 Times 8 Nov. 8/7 A movement has been set on foot for the formation of a Maritime Command of the Legion of Frontiersmen.1994 Forum (Markham, Ont.) June 10/2 Our maritime forces contributed to the success of a counter drug operation on the west coast. 2. a. Connected, associated, or dealing with shipping, naval matters, navigation, seaborne trade, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [adjective] > on the sea nautical1552 oversea1552 maritimal1587 maritime1588 nautic1613 seagoing1895 α. c1615 God & the King (1663) 25 In this maritane passage he submitteth himself unto the conduct and direction of the pilot. 1675 J. Ogilby Britannia Ded. You have laid open to us all those Maritin Itineraries. 1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. 150 The Chamberlain..exerciseth his Jurisdiction amongst Marriners; and what relates to Maritine affairs. β. 1588 Ld. Burghley Copie Let. to B. Mendoza 20 For the Nauie of England..bargaines are already made..for great store of al maritime prouisions.1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 16 The English people are maruellous expert in maritime actions.a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 159 Novogorode and Plæsco, two greatest mart ‘maritime or traide’ towns..of all the easteren parts.1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 113 His want of skill in maritime affairs.1706 Act 6 Anne c. 11 §12 All reviews, reductions or suspensions of the sentences in maritime cases.1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xiii. 405 In the maritime reign of queen Elizabeth.1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 361 To prevent the enemy's maritime communication between Bayonne and Santoña.1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 43 A high rate of interest, termed Maritime Interest, or Bottomry Premium, being charged.1912 G. O. Trevelyan George III & Fox I. i. 18 The elder Pitt..was a maritime strategist of the highest order.1978 Navy News Oct. 1/1 Sea kings from H.M.S. Gannet winched 14 men to safety after their Dutch maritime patrol aircraft ditched in heavy seas.1994 Daily Tel. 7 Dec. 25/2 Our history has been that of a seafaring people, builders of the greatest maritime empire. b. Characteristic of a seaman; sailor-like.Generally used to suggest the traditional stereotype of a hardened or experienced sailor. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [adjective] tar-breech1582 nautic1613 tarpaulin1647 altumal1711 tarpaulian1719 maritime1743 tarrish1841 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas Ded. 5 The following Pages..are written in a plain maritime Stile. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. I. ix. 185 We were visited by five maritime, nay buccaneering, looking gentlemen. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 Solomon Gills..was far from having a maritime appearance. 1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat viii. 122 This sailor had an altogether maritime ignorance of women. 1952–7 S. J. Perelman Road to Miltown (1957) 196 He lent a maritime tang to the meal by snarling..‘Belay there, ye scut’ and dancing a hornpipe with the waitress. 1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 358/1 Norwegian steam, manpower; muscle power. A little jocular use, esp. maritime use. 3. a. Of a place: bordering the sea. Of a person: living near or by the sea.Obsolete in predicative use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near coast > [adjective] lowa1398 maritimal1587 seaboard1590 sea-bordering1597 maritime1598 maritimate1601 marine1610 blue-washed1790 bismarine1808 α. 1606 T. Palmer Ess. Meanes to make Trauailes more Profitable ii. 84 If the Countrey be maretine, and ioyning to the sea, what, and what store of fish the coast aboundeth with. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Maritan, bordering on the sea. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie ii. vi. 109 Ilanders..specially their maritine parts. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 365 Tents, filled with maritine people, that were fled hither from the Sea coast. 1652 H. Carey tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations United Provinces i. vii. 12 There are very many [ships] in the Marratine parts of Friesland. 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders i. iv. 56 The City of Embden,..one of the most considerable Towns of all the Maretine part. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 398 Ercoco and the less Maritine Kings Mombaza [etc.] . View more context for this quotation β. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 122 If the confines of the Kingdome bee Maritime or sea coast.1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 489 To inhabit the maritime cities and townes, neere unto the sea side.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 225 Brittany (a marittime part of France).1654 R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 19 Comparing them with the Maritime Women of other Seas (for the most part fowl, ugly, and weather-beaten).1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces iii. 128 The opening and cleansing of the old Channel of the Rhine..by which the Town of Leyden would grow Maritime.1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. v. 87 Seamen, who dwell in the Maritime Parts.1765 G. Colman in tr. Terence Comedies 96 (note) Rhamnus, Piræus, &c. are to be understood as maritime towns of Attica.1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 1 Devonshire is a maritime county.1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. iv. 86 Though a maritime people, on a..line of sea-coast, they were ignorant of the art of fishing.1877 T. Twiss & H. D. Jencken in H. D. Jencken York & Antwerp Rules 20 The Rules..for a uniform system..for all maritime countries..are appended.1907 W. Jochelson in Internat. Congr. Americanists XV. 121 The subterranean Koryak house is still in use among the maritime Koryak.1928 Jrnl. Ecol. 16 254 The maritime districts..suffer from the frequent sea-fogs and low clouds.1987 R. P. Jhabvala Three Continents i. 97 The small maritime cemetery with its..very simple graves of fishermen and sailors. b. Of an animal, plant, etc.: living on or close to the sea coast. ΚΠ 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 409 The antients looked upon the olive as a maritime-tree. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 418 Statice,..a beautiful maritime genus. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 525 Undrained and marshy land is..best suited to this bird [sc. the lapwing], whose habits are partly maritime. 1926 Jrnl. Ecol. 14 11 The following maritime and submaritime plants were met with on the tops of the cliffs..between Beachy Head and Seaford. 1953 Ecol. Monogr. 23 316/2 The maritime communities with which this study is concerned are those plant communities in which the presence of the species is directly or indirectly determined by salt water. 1988 E. Wood et al. Sea Life Brit. & Ireland 127 Where sand from the beach becomes piled into dunes, other maritime plants occur. c. Physical Geography. Of climate: influenced by the sea; spec. = oceanic adj. 4. Frequently opposed to continental.Cf. earlier marine adj. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > of or relating to climate > specific types of climate excessive1830 insular1830 oceanic1849 continental1865 marine1865 Mediterranean1888 maritime1939 1878 Chambers's Encycl. III. 78/2 Maritime places..have a more equal temperature..than more inland or continental places.] 1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) iii. 62 (table) Types of Rainfall..temperate continental..maritime temperate. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm ii. 12 The climate, although showing marked local variations, is of a temperate maritime type free from extreme conditions, but with definite seasons through the year. 1966 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 77 1089 The ‘thermal maximum’ was not well developed on the coast, probably because summer temperatures were depressed as rising post-glacial sea level made the climate maritime. 1991 National Trust Mag. Spring 21 (caption) Native and exotic plants flourish in the mild maritime climate at Plas-yn-Rhiw. 4. a. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or existing in the sea. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective] floodyc1420 marine?1440 seaish1530 maritime1610 marinal1614 Neptunianc1620 aequoreal1647 thalassian1851 thalassic1860 sea-air1945 1610 S. Daniel Tethys Festival in Order & Solemnitie Creation Prince Henrie sig. F2^v The rest of the ornaments consisted of maske-heads, spouting water, swannes, festons of maritime weedes, great shels, and such like. 1624 B. Jonson Neptunes Triumph 454 A maritime Palace, or the house of Oceanus. 1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad vi. xviii. 139 His Body naked,..But with Maritine little Animals By Hundreds, cover'd. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. xiv. 252 The Maritime Air and steames. 1715 J. Barker Exilius (1719) I. ii. 73 We found our selves deliver'd from violent Death, and maritime Dangers, but expos'd to the Misery of wanting every Thing. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 258 That no rude savour maritime invade The nose of nice nobility! 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 139 The maritime winds unite their efforts toward the autumnal equinox. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage v. 67 An interesting maritime landscape. 1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave ii. 43 The cloudlets in one part of the pale clean sky had funny curls, and were all alike as on a maritime horizon, all hanging together in a delicate flock. 1984 G. Vanderhaeghe My Present Age (1986) xii. 174 I could remember the depth-charges..rolling end over end against a sky of maritime blue, falling with a heavy splash into the sea. b. Meteorology. Relating to or designating moist air masses formed over the ocean. Opposed to continental. ΚΠ 1929 Q. Jrnl. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 55 81 (table) Type of air at Valentia as indicated on the Bergen chart... Genuine polar. Maritime polar. 1939 Meteorol. Gloss. (Meteorol. Office) (ed. 3) 143 Maritime polar air is often..of arctic origin, but it may have originated over cold parts of the oceans. 1960 Aeroplane 99 624/1 The dew-point front is the boundary between moist ‘maritime tropical’ air..and dry ‘tropical continental’ air. 1967 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 370 Only where the air of maritime origin is of sufficient depth to allow the development of cumulonimbus can there be rain. 1982 R. G. Barry & R. J. Chorley Atmosphere, Weather & Climate (ed. 4) v. 198 The influence of maritime air masses can extend deep into Europe because there are few topographic barriers to airflow. 1988 S. Afr. Jrnl. Sci. 84 39 A notable increase in the incidence of hail in December followed by a rise in general rain days in January reflect the intrusion of maritime tropical air into the area. 5. Usually in form Maritime. Originally: of or relating to the provinces of the eastern coast of British North America. Subsequently: of or relating to the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Maritime Provinces n. at Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1828 J. McGregor (title) Historical and descriptive sketches of the maritime colonies of British America. 1871 R. L. Dashwood Chiploquorgan xv. 251 As has been before mentioned a Maritime Confederation would have been the best course to have commenced with. 1923 Dalhousie Rev. 3 211 We can understand why Maritime Union might find favour in Nova Scotia, as that fine province..would dominate the Acadian Government and Parliament absolutely. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. 9/4 Premiers Louis Robichaud, G. I. Smith and Alex Campbell will also meet with a man suggested to head a three-province commission to study Maritime co-operation. 1992 J. M. Bumsted Peoples of Canada vi. 182 The King government offered nothing more than an investigation of Maritime grievances by a royal commission. B. n. 1. †a. A sea coast; a country or region adjoining the sea. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near coast > [noun] > maritime district marinec1313 maritime1591 shorea1616 sea-border1686 shore-land1807 littoral1828 1591 Declar. Great Troubles 5 Certayne skroles or beadrolles of names of men dwelling in sundry partes of our Countries,..but specially in the maritimes. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres Gloss. 251 Maritime is sea coast countrie, or countries adioyning vnto the sea. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. ii. 83 In the south Maritime and in Ethiopia. 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 75 The General..comes up to the maritims of Mitylene, and hostilely invades them. b. In plural Maritimes. = Maritime Provinces n. at Compounds 2. Dict. Canad. (1967) cites an 1806 source as the earliest evidence of this sense; however, the text quoted is in fact a 20th-cent. synopsis of the original document. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Canada > parts of north-west1682 down east1817 Atlantic provinces1855 prairie province1873 prairie provinces1878 mainland1901 maritimes1926 Palliser triangle1934 Newfie1942 sand-hill1949 Near North1952 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 July 1/2 Continuing his Maritime tour, Premier Meighan in an address here tonight again stressed his policy for the Maritimes. 1934 W. M. Whitelaw (title) The Maritimes and Canada before Confederation. 1938 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Ingleside viii. 58 The July night was unreasonably cold as even a summer night in the Maritimes sometimes is. 1947 G. Taylor Canada xvi. 385 The three small provinces linked as the Maritimes..together only amount to 1.5 per cent of the area of the Dominion. 1960 Times 21 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p. v/6 The salty Maritimes or the wide-open Prairies. 1986 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 30 Jan. d1/3 The folk art that existed in the Maritimes many generations before it emerged in the Prairie Provinces. †2. A person living near the sea. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller beside sea coast-man1580 maritimea1600 sea-borderer1599 sea-boarder1611 coaster1612 shoreman1650 Paralian1724 Orarian1869 bayman1904 cover1905 a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 5037 The maretyms that duelt neir be the cost..fled. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 55 Lycurgus was head of the country men, Megacles of the Maritimes. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. i. 230 The Greek and the barbarian, the epirot and the maritime. Compounds C1. maritime insurance n. ΚΠ 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 406/2 A maritime insurance is a contract [etc.]. 1942 Fortune 212/2 The lack of ships, translated into high freight and maritime insurance rates, is being reflected in the inflation spiral. 1991 Renaissance Q. 44 568 Day..describes..accounting, maritime insurance, the preference for small family firms, [etc.]. maritime position n. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Maritime positions, the intersection of the geographical coordinates of the latitudes and longitudes of places on the globe. † maritime regiment n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > marines maritime regiment1668 marine1672 marine regiment1690 Marine Corps1798 Royal Marine1802 royals1826 RM1827 amphibe1831 1668 in L. Edye Hist. Marines (1893) I. 102 2 Maritim Regim^ts consisting of 26 Compa^nyes. 1684 Gen. & Compl. List Mil. Every Commission-officer 15 His Royal Highness the Duke of York and Albany's Marittime Regiment of Foot. C2. Maritime Alps n. [after French Alpes Maritimes, Italian Alpi Marittime] the southern sector of the western division of the Alps, extending along the French–Italian border between the Côte d'Azur and the Cottian Alps. ΚΠ 1789 Encycl. Brit. I. 500/1 From Savona to the springs of the Varus, where the Alps lie against the sea of Genoa, they are called Maritime, now le Montagne di Tenda.] 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 388/1 The rivers which have their rise in the Maritime Alps are numerous: on the Piedmontese side they are all tributary to the Po. 1898 W. J. Locke Idols xxiii. 320 The cool grey Maritime Alps, shimmering against the violet sky. 1994 Herald (Glasgow) 5 Jan. 18/2 Ross Finlay takes a Fiat Tipo turbo diesel for a spin on hallowed motorsport ground in the French Maritime Alps. maritime court n. [compare post-classical Latin curia maritima (from 14th cent. in British sources)] a court which hears cases of maritime law. ΚΠ 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. §1. 14 The spiritual and maritime courts of this kingdom. 1879 Harper's Mag. Dec. 61/2 Prizes..were referred to the decision of the Maritime Court. 1990 C. R. Johnson Middle Passage (1991) ix. 100 Would you be prepared to..testify before a maritime court that your captain..lost control of his vessel? maritime law n. the branch of international law dealing with shipping, ocean fishery, territorial and international waters, etc.; a body of laws applying to the territorial waters of a particular country. ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > maritime law admiralty1419 Rhodian law1613 sea-law1613 admiralty law1676 maritime lawa1682 a1682 S. Clarke New Descr. World (1689) 219 The Isle of Oleron, is scituate against the French Province of Xaintoigne, South of the Isle of Rhee, famous for the Maritime Laws; established here by Richard King of England. 1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade at Hypotheca It was held that, by the maritime law, every contract of the master implies an hypothecation, but at common law it is not so. 1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 55 Maritime law, or international law, consists of opinions and precedents for the most part. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 235/2 The bill of gross adventure in French maritime law is an instrument making a loan on maritime security. 1991 U.S. News & World Rep. 27 May 62/2 Electives include Asian studies, international and maritime law and international banking. maritime mile n. = nautical mile n. at nautical adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > mile > nautical mile geometrical1597 maritime mile1632 geometric1670 nautical mile1730 knot1748 nautic mile1762 sea-mile1796 air mile1919 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 362 Two thousand and three hundred Maritine miles. 1726 Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 416 The Circumference was 6000 Feet, which i take to be the Standard of an Englsih maritime Mile, or the ¹/ ₆₀ part of a Degree upon the Equator. 1838 N. Amer. Rev. 46 536 The volcanic islands of the China Sea are 1,800 maritime miles distant. 1939 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 33 610 It was not until 1882 that six North Sea littoral states recognized that their jurisdiction extended only three maritime miles from their coasts. 2007 E. M. DeLoughrey Routes & Roots 21 Caribbean and Pacific Islanders were noted for..their ability to navigate thousands of maritime miles during an era when Europeans had not determined longitude. maritime pine n. [compare French pin maritime (1680), Italian pino marittimo (1835)] a southern European pine, Pinus pinaster, with long paired needles and clustered cones, which is native to coastal areas, is often planted in order to bind sandy soil, and yields resin that is used as a source of high quality turpentine; also called cluster pine. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > cluster pine pinaster1562 sea-pine1753 Mediterranean pine1760 maritime pine1850 cluster-pine1857 1850 G. Law tr. J. B. Boussingault Rural Econ. ii. 142 Colophony, or rosin, is extracted from different kinds of the genus Pinus. In the Landes, or sandy plains of Bordeaux, it is the maritime pine which yields it. 1894 H. M. Ward Laslett's Timber & Timber Trees (ed. 2) xxxi. 349 The Cluster Pine..much used in the south and west of France, where it is known as the Maritime Pine from the extensive planting on the coasts, yields a highly resinous reddish wood. 1914 W. J. Bean Trees & Shrubs Hardy in Brit. Isles II. 187 Cluster Pine, Maritime Pine..is, as its common name implies, admirably adapted for maritime localities. 1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 54/1 Of all two-needled pines, the species with the longest leaves,..is the cluster pine or maritime pine.., a southern European tree that thrives in coastal areas. 1987 K. Rushforth Tree Planting & Managem. (1990) 190/1 Maritime pine... This pine has long needles in pairs and large bright brown cones. maritime power n. (a) a country having naval supremacy; (b) naval and sea air forces. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > air force > [noun] maritime power1711 fourth arm1901 arm1908 air force1911 RFC1913 R.A.F.1918 Royal Air Force1918 U.S.A.A.F.1943 U.S.A.F.1947 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > [noun] > naval power > nation having maritime power1711 ocean power1713 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] fleeta1000 floteOE ship-ferda1122 navya1382 armyc1475 armada1533 class1596 naval1627 armadilla1685 Grand Fleet1696 armament1698 maritime power1711 1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 31 This is what best became us to do as a Maritime Power. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiii. 364 Britain..already assumed its natural and respectable station of a maritime power. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xvii. 167 They are relics of the grandeur of Genoa's palmy days—the days when she was a great commercial and maritime power several centuries ago. 1952 W. S. Churchill Second World War V. i. 3 ‘Maritime power’, a modern term expressing the combined strength of naval and air forces properly woven together. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 634/2 All maritime powers adopted the general design and it became customary to define battleships as dreadnoughts. Maritime Provinces n. the Canadian Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, having coastlines on the Gulf of St Lawrence or the Atlantic Ocean; cf. sense B. 1b; see also Atlantic provinces n. at Atlantic adj. and n. Additions. ΚΠ 1847 J. Roy Hist. Canada IV. i. 165 These Provinces are of two classes—first, the Inland Portions, watered only by great lakes and rivers, and, secondly, the Maritime Provinces. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxiv. 392 A wealthy manufacturer of New Brunswick had..left part of his fortune to endow a large number of scholarships to be distributed among the various high schools and academies of the Maritime Provinces. 1940 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Chron. iv. v. 728 Her deep, rather musical voice, with its Maritime Province accent. 1987 Canad. Geographic Oct. 96/2 Barachois is used extensively for a coastal saltwater pond on the south and west coast of Newfoundland, and along the Gulf of St. Lawrence shores of the three maritime provinces and Quebec. maritime state n. †(a) the naval, as opposed to the military, component of a country's forces (obsolete); (b) a state or country bordering the sea. ΚΠ 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xiii. 405 The maritime state is nearly related to the former [sc. the military]: though much more agreeable to the principles of our free constitution. 1786 T. Jefferson Let. 9 July in Papers (1954) X. 112 How may the ultramontane territory be disposed of so as to produce the greatest..benefit to the inhabitants of the maritime states of the union? 1865 Times 2 Jan. To bring down on themselves the hostility of the most powerful maritime State. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 467/2 Alagoas, a maritime state of Brazil. 1992 P. Birnie & A. Boyle Internat. Law & Environment iv. 278 Maritime states were prepared to accept the principle of extended jurisdiction for specific purposes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1550
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