a. [ad. L. cisalpīnus, f. cis + alpīn-us, f. Alpes.]
On this side of the Alps: gen. with respect to Rome, i.e., south of the Alps.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apophth., 267 b. The fated flood of Rubicon disseuereth the Galle cisalpine from Italie.
1819. Pantologia, s.v., Our Gallic neighbours have lately revived the term, calling Italy … the Cisalpine republic.
1879. Froude, Cæsar, vii. 67. Northern Italy was … not called Italy, but Cisalpine Gaul.
b. sb. (pl.) ‘The party in the Church of Rome, who accept the principles of the Gallican Synod of 1682, as distinguished from the Ultramontanes’ (Staunton, Eccl. Hist.).
Hence Cisalpinism.
1886. W. J. Amherst, Hist. Cath. Emancip., II. 113. The Church in England was freed from Cisalpinism and degradation.
