a. (sb.) [ad. L. transmarīnus, f. trans across + mare sea, after MARINE. Cf. F. transmarin (12th c. in Godef.).]
1. That is beyond the sea; born, existing, situated, or found on the other side of the sea; over-sea.
1583. Melbancke, Philotimus, Aa j b. An aliaunt, or a transmarine straunger.
1610. T. Higgons, Serm. at Pauls Crosse, 3 March (1611), 45. It was borne in transmarine and forraine parts.
1671. F. Philipps, Reg. Necess., 329. Purchasers of Transmarine Wares and Commodities.
1700. Tyrrell, Hist. Eng., II. 723. Normandy, and the King’s other Transmarine Dominions.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. I. vi. 193. Contemporary authors … speak of the Scots, as a transmarine people.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVII. 189. If it [India] were the sole transmarine appendage to the crown.
2. Crossing or extending across the sea.
1860. Gosse, Rom. Nat. Hist., 84. Species [of birds] which are known to make long transmarine migrations.
1908. Sci. Amer., 15 Feb., 106/1. The remarkable transmarine railroad which is under construction from the mainland of Florida to Key West.
1908. F. Harrison, in Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc., Ser. III. III. 38. Pitt made all European questions subordinate to his transmarine, world-wide ambitions and schemes.
† B. sb. One born or dwelling beyond the sea; a native or inhabitant of a transmarine country.
1596. Warner, Alb. Eng., XI. lxv. (1602), 280. Perhaps, vnpossible … My loue should equall his, or I a trans-Marine be wrought.
1633. Heywood, Eng. Trav., II. ii. I am, quoth he, A Trans-marine by birth.
