transalpine, a. (n.)
(trɑːnsˈælpaɪn, træns-, -nz-)
[ad. L. transalpīnus beyond or across the Alps, f. trans, trans- + alpīnus Alpine, f. Alpēs the Alps.]
A. adj.
1. That is situated beyond the Alps: a. Originally and usually as viewed from Rome or Italy, i.e. north of the Alps; also, dwelling in or belonging to a region beyond the Alps; also † transf. rude, uncultured (obs.). Cf. tramontane A. 1, 1 b.
| 1590 Greene Orl. Fur. (1599) 16 Found in the mountaines of Transalpine France. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xxiii. (1674) 23 Trans-Alpin writers, whose brains are thought to lie in their backs. 1659 Lovelace Poems (1864) 225 Where then,..Lies our transalpine barbarous neglect? 1825 C. Butler Bk. Rom. Cath. Ch. 120 There certainly are some Transalpine territories in which the Cisalpine opinions on papal power prevail. 1837 Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) III. 246 The first transalpine garden of this kind arose at Leyden in 1577. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 36 The Po is the only Italian river which can be compared with those of transalpine Europe. 1854 Milman Lat. Chr. vi. i. (1864) III. 373 Synods of Transalpine prelates, as at Rheims. |
b. Beyond the Alps from England, or from Europe generally; Italian.
| 1624 [Scott] Votivæ Angliæ Ded. 3 Those fiery Transalpine, and factious Transmarine English, who haue onely their bodies here, but their harts in Rome and Spaine. 1632 J. Howell in Biondi's Eromena b iij, So have I seen Transalpin grafts to grow, And beare rare fruit, remov'd to Thames from Po. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Transalpine.., over or beyond the Alpes, forreign, Italian, on the further side of the mountaines. 1718 Rowe Prol. to Non-Juror 34 To your Transalpine master's rule resort, And fill an empty abdicated court. 1765 Wilkes Let. fr. Naples in Corr. & Mem. (1805) II. 200 This is my fourth letter to you since I have been transalpine. |
c. Of or pertaining to the party in the Roman Church opposed to the Ultramontanes.
| 1794 in B. Ward Dawn Cath. Revival (1909) II. 63 The doctrine of the Deposing and Dispensing power of the Pope,..doctrines which have for above a century been distinguished by the names of Ultramontane and Transalpine. 1826 [implied in transalpinely]. |
2. a. (Passing) across the Alps.
rare.
| 1654 H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 104 In his Trans-Alpine expedition. 1744 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 282, I hope the K. of Sard{supa} will harrass the Fr. and Spds in their transalpine march. |
b. That crosses the Alps, built across the Alps.
| 1908 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 647/1 The Simplon is the least steeply graded..of any transalpine railway. |
B. n. A native or inhabitant of a country beyond or across the Alps:
cf. 1 a and b above.
rare.
| 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. 47 Old Writers..write, that the Diuine Law came from Italy to the Transalpines. 1622 Burton Descr. Leicester. 92 Though those Transalpines account vs Tramontani, rude and barbarous,..yet may compare either with their olde Dante, Petrarch, or Boccace. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I.) 85 Those wise Transalpines themselves.., who thinke all such to be Scythians who are not Italians. |
Hence
transˈalpinely adv. (
cf. sense 1 c);
† trans ˈalpiner Obs. rare = transalpine B.
| 1826 G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (1853) 195 note, I recollect the practical cisalpine argument of Almain, from the flat judicial contradictoriness of the two *transalpinely infallible Popes, Nicolas III. and John XXII. |
| 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 238 As touching butter and cheese, the Hollanders cry By your leaue wee must goe before you, and the *Transalpiners with their lordly Parmasin..shoulder in for the vpper hand as hotly. 1657 Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Pol. Disc. ii. ix. 179 That all Transalpiners might be driven out of Italy, was a thing desired..by all Italians. |