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Webster 1913 Edition


Cisatlantic

Cisˊat-lan′tic

,
Adj.
[Pref.
cis-
+
Atlantic
.]
On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; – used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer.
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Cisatlantic

Cisatlantic

See also: cis-Atlantic and cisatlantic

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Adjective

Cisatlantic (not comparable)

  1. Situated on the same side of the Atlantic Ocean.
    • 1798, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Around the Tea-Table, page 190
      Society to-day, trans-Atlantic and cis-Atlantic, very much needs more royal marriages.
    • 1805, The Literary Miscellany I, page 47
      This well directed liberality and the vigilance and ability of the Cisatlantic defenders of Christianity.
    • 1809, Oliver Oldschool [ed.], The Port Folio III, page 46
      I was much struck with a communication, which, in lack of perspicuity as well as pomp of language it would puzzle our cisatlantic writers to exceed.

Antonyms

  • (situated on the same side of the Atlantic Ocean): Transatlantic

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cisatlantic

cisatlantic

See also: Cisatlantic and cis-Atlantic

English

Adjective

cisatlantic (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of Cisatlantic

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