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  • adjective Alternative spelling of Cisatlantic.

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Examples

  • The truth of the matter, with regard to America, is that the Columbian eagle makes such a tremendous cackling over every little _egg_ it lays, that we cis-Atlantic folks rate its achievements much higher than they deserve!

    She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.

  • Bonfires blazed in every street and, by their red glare, crowds met and exchanged congratulations, amid the wildest enthusiasm; while the beverage dear to the cis-Atlantic heart was poured out in libations wonderful to see!

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • It was a little as if she resented Lorne's comparison of standards, and claimed the American one as at least cis-Atlantic.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Early in the life of the nation Jefferson had correlated the double aspect of this policy: "Our first and fundamental maxim," he said, "should be never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe; our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs."

    Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Charles Seymour 1924

  • "Our first and fundamental maxim," said Jefferson, "should be never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe; our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs."

    A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

  • It would be absurd to apply this rude generalization to Mrs. Wharton's cultivation, which is so unusual in variety, accuracy, and scholarship; but one does not wholly escape an intimation of the presence of this cis-Atlantic attitude in the evidences of cultivation so profusely scattered through Mrs. Wharton's stories, and the patriotically inclined are justified in pointing to her with pride as a product of our national civilization.

    The Novels of Mrs. Wharton 1906

  • Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs.

    From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy John Holladay Latane 1900

  • It must be remembered that the cause for the disaffected colonists is argued by the writers in this series in the old-fashioned way, -- that is to say, upon the fundamental theory that Great Britain was foully wrong and her cis-Atlantic subjects nobly right.

    Benjamin Franklin 1888

  • Charles Brockden Brown, the most important of Philadelphia writers, the first professional man-of-letters in America, and the predecessor of all cis-Atlantic novelists, was born in Philadelphia, January 17, 1771, and in that city he founded, in 1803-4, the _Literary Magazine and American

    The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885

  • His pastor sat at his bedside and the "old man eloquent," after a long and exciting public life, trans-Atlantic and cis-Atlantic, was back again in the scenes of his boyhood, and he kept saying in his dream over and over again: "My mother! mother! mother!"

    The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony 1867

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