| 单词 | trans-gangetic | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastrans-Gangetic  a.   in geographical adjectives, formed on the names of rivers, seas, mountains, territories, etc., with the sense ‘situated or lying beyond or on the other side of’, as  trans-Adriatic,  trans-Alleghanian,  trans-Alleghany,  trans-Altaian,  trans-Baikal,  trans-Baikalian,  trans-Cantine (the river Cam),  trans-Caspian,  trans-Caucasian,  trans-Danubian,  trans-Egyptian,  trans-Euphrates ( trans-Euphratesian,  trans-Euphratic),  trans-Gangetic (Ganges),  trans-Grampian,  trans-Indus,  trans-Indine,  trans-Jordan,  trans-Jordanic,  trans-Juran (Mt. Jura),  trans-Mersey,  trans-Mississippi,  trans-Mississippian,  trans-Mosan (R. Meuse),  trans-Pyrenean,  trans-Severn,  trans-Tiberine (also  trans-Teverine, Italian trasteverino),  trans-Trentane (R. Trent),  trans-Ural,  trans-Volga,  trans-Zambesian, etc. Also from names of planets,  Trans-Martian,  trans-Neptunian,  trans-Uranian, and in humorous nonce-use, as  trans-bedpost. (See also transatlantic adj. and n., trans-Pacific adj., Transkei n., Transleithan adj.) ΚΠ 1612    M. Drayton Poly-olbion viii. 120  				The Clees, like louing Twinnes,..that stand Trans-Seuerned, behold fair England tow'rds the rise. a1641    R. Montagu Acts & Monuments 		(1642)	 144  				Satrapaes of the Transeuphratesian Countreyes. 1655    T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. vi. 99 in  Church-hist. Brit.  				Monks Colledge..stood on the trans-Cantine side, an Anchoret in it self, severed by the River from the rest of the University. 1756    C. Lucas Ess. Waters  ii. 113  				The transmosan territories of Liege. 1797    Cambr. Univ. Cal. 18  				That there cannot be a majority of transtrentane, or men born north of the Trent in the seniority. 1802    A. Ranken Hist. France III.  i. iii. 30  				Burgundy Transjurane..now fell under the superiority of Germany. 1814    Deb. Congr. U.S. 14 Feb. 1422  				Even then the trans-Alleganean wilderness was rustling with the preparation of the savage. 1815    J. Adams Wks. 		(1856)	 X. 168  				Our trans-Alleghanian States, in patriotism,..are at least equal to any in the Union. 1817    H. T. Colebrooke in  Trans. Linn. Soc. 12 352  				Between the cis-gangetic and trans-gangetic regions. 1825    C. D. Colden Mem. 93  				Why should the trans-Allegany States have remained united with those on the Atlantic? 1828    G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy II.  iii. iii. 116  				The transdanubian and transeuphratic conquests of Trajan. 1831    A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. IV. 31  				In the trans-Mississippian territories of the United States, the burrowing owl resides. 1836    F. Mahony Barry in  Rel. Father Prout 		(1859)	 503  				Of an old transtiberine family, he claimed with the trasteverini unconditionated pedigree. 1840    H. H. Milman Hist. Christianity I. 177  				On the remote border of his transjordanic territory. 1845    S. Austin tr.  L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany 		(ed. 2)	 II. 445  				The generals now, under the eyes of the pope, demanded..as security for payment, the Transteverine city. 1854    H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II.  iv. ix. 212  				Leo revenged himself by severing the Transadriatic provinces..from the Roman patriarchate. 1861    J. G. Sheppard Fall of Rome i. 22  				Pannonia was nearly equivalent to trans-Danubian Hungary. 1865    H. B. Tristram Land of Israel xxii. 519  				We mounted for our trans-Jordanic expedition. 1875    Harper's Mag. Mar. 572/2  				The subdivision..into the Trans-Alleghany, Valley, Middle, and Tide-water districts. 1876    J. S. Blackie Lang. & Lit. Sc. Highlands 40  				The quick sensibilities of trans-Grampian philologers. 1878    W. E. Gladstone Homer i. §12. 15  				Homer..gives an account of the trans-Egyptian Pygmæans. 1888    Times 9 Oct. 4/1  				These outsiders..will also have to settle peacefully in the Russian Transcaspian. 1898    Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 2/1  				Glimpses of the Jordan valley and the trans-Jordan hills. 1900    M. C. Wilson Irene Petrie xiii. 305  				A Campaign in trans-Himalayan lands. 1903    Sir H. H. Johnston in  Times 17 Feb.  				A Government Department..dealing with foreign (i.e., trans-Zambesian) labour. 1934    A. Toynbee Study of Hist. II. 203  				Musa had completed the Arab conquest..by occupying the Trans-pyrenaean province of Septimania along the Gallic coast between the Pyrenees and the Rhône. < as lemmas | 
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