a. [ad. L. transrhēnānus adj. and sb., f. trans across + Rhēnus the Rhine. Cf. F. transrhénan, -ane (in Littré).] That is across or beyond the Rhine; hence, German as opposed to Roman or to French.
a. 1727. Newton, Obs. Dan., I. v. (1733), 54. Captains of the Transrhenane Franks in the reign of Theodosius.
1830. Crowe, Hist. France, I. 7. A fresh infusion of the ruder spirit of the Transrhenane race came to invigorate the already degenerated Franks of Gaul.
1835. Fraser’s Mag., XI. 260. The crude chimæras of transcendental and transrhenane philosophy.
1913. Eng. Hist. Rev., July, 561. The Germans obtained the very rudiments of civilization from the Kelts in their pristine transrhenane home.
