Obs. [ad. late L. transfretātiōn-em, n. of action f. transfretāre: see next.] The action of crossing or passing over a strait, channel, or narrow sea.
1612. Davies, Why Ireland, etc., (1747), 69. Since the last transfretation of King Richard the Second.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett., IV. xxiii. She had a rough passage in her transfretation to Dover Castle.
1768. H. Walpole, Hist. Doubts, 90. Of this transfretation and Christening, Perkin, in his supposed confession, says not a word.
1782. S. Pegge, Cur. Misc., 60. Henry 2. levied numerous subsidies … for his transfretations (to use a Monkish word) into foreign parts.
