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transrhenane, a.|trɑːnsˈriːneɪn, træns-|
[ad. L. transrhēnānus adj. and n., f. trans across + Rhēnus the Rhine. Cf. F. transrhénan, -ane (in Littré).]
That is across or beyond the Rhine; hence, German as opposed to Roman or to French.
a1727Newton Obs. Dan. i. v. (1733) 54 Captains of the Transrhenane Franks in the reign of Theodosius. 1830Crowe Hist. France I. 7 A fresh infusion of the ruder spirit of the Transrhenane race came to invigorate the already degenerated Franks of Gaul. 1835Fraser's Mag. XI. 260 The crude chimæras of transcendental and transrhenane philosophy. 1913Eng. Hist. Rev. July 561 The Germans obtained the very rudiments of civilization from the Kelts in their pristine transrhenane home. |