The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transmarine \Trans`ma*rine"\, a. [L. transmarinus; trans beyond
+ marinus marine: cf. F. transmarin. See Marine.]
Lying or being beyond the sea.
--Howell.
Wiktionary
a. 1 beyond or on the other side of a sea 2 crossing a sea
Usage examples of "transmarine".
He summoned together the barons of England, and required them to pass the sea under his standard, and to quell the rebels: he found that he possessed as little authority in that kingdom as in his transmarine provinces.
Latins was much inferior to their credulity: the Norman veterans wished to enjoy the harvest of their toils, and the unwarlike Italians trembled at the known and unknown dangers of a transmarine expedition.
The laws and language, the manners and titles, of the French nation and Latin church, were introduced into these transmarine colonies.
England, which had long resisted the proposal to supply men as well as tithes for continental wars, now faced the certainty of new burdens merely to defend the transmarine provinces of her Angevin king.
As John prolonged his stay in Britain for months, many desired to know why the Duke of Normandy did not go with those transmarine forces, whose business it was, to the defense of his marches and his sorely beset castellans, instead of living softly with Isabella in strongholds safely remote from the catastrophe.
The prestige of Queen Eleanor suffered in the general distrust of transmarine ties.
The code of laws which the Spaniards gradually evolved for the rule of their transmarine provinces, was, in spite of defects which are visible only to the larger experience of the present day, one of the wisest, most humane and best co-ordinated of any to this day published for any colony.
Heyn was employed by the Dutch West India Company, which from the year 1623 onwards, carried the Spanish war into the transmarine possessions of Spain and Portugal.
Formerly, the monastic funds were drawn upon to excess in defraying the costs of a transmarine visitation.
All the Portuguese colonies in America, Africa, and the East Indies acknowledged the sovereignty of the King of Spain, who thus not only united the whole Iberian peninsula under his single sceptre, but had acquired a transmarine empire little inferior in wealth and extent to that which he had inherited at his accession.
He was the first to carry out on a large scale those plans of transmarine colonization whose inception was due to the Gracchi.
Ortaias Sphrantzes might have lost the transmarine suburbs of the capital, but when his forces pulled out they left behind few vessels larger than a fishing smack.