transfluvialadj.
/trɑːnsˈfluːvɪəl//transˈfluːvɪə/ Situated or dwelling across or beyond a river: in quot. 1806 rendering Hebrew ʿib'rī ‘one from the other side’, i.e. from beyond the Jordan or ? the Euphrates.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [adjective] > situated beyond
transfluvial1806
transfluvian1848
transriverine1900
1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 716 The term Hebrew, which signifies transfluvial,..was applied to the posterity of Abraham, because they came from beyond the Euphrates.
1862 S. Lucas Secularia (1863) 92 As the lower curve..was intersected..by the river Avon, it included the transfluvial parishes of St. Mary Redcliffe, Thomas and Temple.
18.. J. R. Lowell Oriental Apol. v The sacred rites and laws of his Transfluvial rival.
Derivatives
transˈfluvian adj. in same sense.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [adjective] > situated beyond
transfluvial1806
transfluvian1848
transriverine1900
1848 Times 18 Oct. 3/5 His successors were rather kings of Candahar, with some transfluvian provinces, than kings of India in our sense.
1865 Daily Tel. 12 Apr. 3 As long as this part of the Mississippi remained to the Confederates all the produce of the transfluvian region was theirs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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