a. [ad. post-cl.L. transfluviāl-is, f. trans, TRANS- + fluvi-us a river: See -AL.] Situated or dwelling across or beyond a river: in quot. 1806 rendering Heb. ib’rī ‘one from the other side,’ i.e., from beyond the Jordan or ? the Euphrates.
1806. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., IV. 716/1. The term Hebrew, which signifies transfluvial,… was applied to the posterity of Abraham, because they came from beyond the Euphrates.
1862. S. Lucas, Secularia (1863), 92. As the lower curve … was intersected … by the river Avon, it included the transfluvial parishes of St. Mary Redcliffe, Thomas and Temple.
18[?]. Lowell, Orient. Apol., v. The sacred rites and laws of his Transfluvial rival.
So Transfluvian a., in same sense.
1848. Times, 18 Oct., 3/5. His successors were rather kings of Candahar, with some transfluvian provinces, than kings of India in our sense.
1865. Daily Tel., 12 April, 3. As long as this part of the Mississippi remained to the Confederates all the produce of the transfluvian region was theirs.
