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trans-Mersey
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.)
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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.
1852 R. Grant Hist. Physical Astron. xii. 166 M. Valz, of Marseilles, writing to M. Arago in 1835,..made the following..remarks relative to the probable existence of a Trans-Uranian planet.1852 R. Grant Hist. Physical Astron. xii. 185 On the 2nd September, 1846, he [Mr. Adams] transmitted..an account of his further researches on the Trans-Uranian planet.1879 Nature 27 Mar. 481/2 The Trans-Neptunian Planet..Observations made at Washington in 1850 of this supposed planet.1885 A. M. Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 98 He [Olbers] supposed that both Ceres and Pallas were fragments of a primitive trans-Martian planet.1864 Miss Cornwallis in Sat. Rev. XVIII. 463 Pray tell me about the trans-bedpost regions; my whole concern at present is the cis-bedpost—a very narrow domain.
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8. in geographical adjectives, formed as in sense 7, with the sense ‘passing across, crossing’, as in trans-African, trans-Algerian, trans-American, trans-Andean (-ian, -ine), trans-Antarctic, trans-Arabian, trans-Asiatic, trans-Australian, trans-Balkan, trans-Canada, trans-Manchurian, trans-Mersey, trans-Mongolian, trans-Pyrenean, trans-Saharan, trans-Siberian, trans-Sierran, trans-Tasman, etc. Many of these occur also in sense 7.
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1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain iv. 31 Newfangled transpyrenean reforms, innovations, and botherations.
1880 Nature 4 Mar. 424/2 The future Transalgerian Railway Company.
1884 Notes on Bks. (Longman's) 31 May 247 The Transandine exploring and surveying expedition of 1871–2.
1886 Liverpool Courier 16 Jan. Assisting in opening the trans-Mersey Railway.
1888 Times 20 Sept. 3/6 Denham, Clapperton, Barth, and other trans-Saharan travellers.
1898 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 543/2 8000 feet above sea-level, the highest point to which the Trans-Andean railway had been carried.
1901 Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 3/3 The reported adoption..of the trans-American route for the conveyance of the Australian mails.
1903 Daily Chron. 17 Mar. 6/6 The project of a Trans-Pyrenean railway is thoroughly practicable.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 16/3 This trans-African voyage of Mr. Savage Landor.
1908 Busy Man's Mag. Apr. 95 The Proposed Route of the Trans-Canada Rail~way.
1908 Edinb. Rev. July 146 The trans-Niger railway, destined to..open up to commerce a magnificent agricultural region.
1916 R. K. Wood Tourist's N.W. 315 A campaign for the improvement and construction of roads which..shall in combination form a trans-Canada motor route.
1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 82 470 Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth..will then make the Transantarctic flight, which is the sole object of the expedition.
1935 E. B. Buckbee Saga Old Tuolumne 385 The road survived until the State of California came to look with favour upon its possibilities as a tran-Sierran [sic] road.
1938 Times 17 Feb. 13/4 The flying-boat Centaurus showed her unsuitability for trans-Tasman traffic.
1950 Pacific Discovery Mar.–Apr. 4/1 Did you know that a trans-Sierran highway is now being built in Madera County?
1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying iv. 62 The Trans-Canada and Canadian Winter Rallies have not yet reached the lofty eminence of the Safari.
1965 E. McCourt Road across Canada 199 The Trans-Canada Highway is an engineering, communications, and scenic marvel.
1966 N. Marsh Black Beech & Honeydew viii. 175 In..1928 the trans-Tasman steamer sailed..into Cook Strait.
1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Aug. 957/4 Shackleton's unsuccessful transantarctic expedition.
1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) i. 4 The capital is Istiqlal, renamed in 1960, upon independence, and on prior maps called Cailliéville, in honor of the trans-Saharan traveller of 1828.
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