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  • noun A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy.

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Examples

  • Cisalpine, and whom we call Transalpine — famishing mountaineers, inhabiting the Alps and the Apennines.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • A glance at Europe shows the radical difference which is symbolized by the terms Transalpine and Cisalpine, Latin and

    Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885

  • Almost exactly a year after the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (F. SS.R.) - formerly known as the Transalpine Redemptorists - returned to full communion with the Catholic Church on 18 June 2008, this Monday 15 June 2009 H.E. Peter Antony Moran, Bishop of Aberdeen, visited Papa Stronsay, the island where the F. SS.R. reside and which belongs to the diocese of Aberdeen.

    Bishop of Aberdeen Celebrates Mass for Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer 2009

  • How I had been robbed in the valley I informed the senators, who told me that, in very truth, the people of that side were bad livers and naturally thievish, whereby I perceived well that, as we have with us the countries Cisalpine and Transalpine, that is, behither and beyond the mountains, so have they there the countries Cidentine and

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • A link to the Transalpine Redemptorists who have assembled the relevant quotations.

    From the Mail John 2009

  • A link to the Transalpine Redemptorists who have assembled the relevant quotations.

    "The Pope Has Already Spoken Clearly" John 2009

  • The Transalpine Oelleitung (TAL) connects oil refineries and storage facilities in southern Germany with Trieste, Italy.

    Energy profile of Germany 2008

  • Transalpine routes connecting northern Italy with the northern Alps during these slots is consistent with late Holocene maximum glacier retreat.

    Archaeological Finds in Retreating Swiss Glacier « Climate Audit 2005

  • Several of the greatest Roman commanders with their whole armies, that advanced for the defense of Transalpine

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Transalpine Gaul transatlantic cable transatlantic shipping

    Subject Index Page 77 2001

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