Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to, living on, or coming from the southern side of the Alps.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated on this side of the Alps, with regard to Rome—that is, on the south of the Alps: opposed to transalpine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to
transalpine .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective On this side of the
Alps (with respect toRome , therefore thesouth side).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The confidence of the Milanese redoubled when they learned that he had promised the members of the assembled clergy to maintain the catholic worship and clergy as already established, and had compelled them to take the oath of fidelity to the cisalpine republic.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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A drummer with a gold-mounted elk's tooth dangling from his chain ogled her, so she sat very prim of back, gazing out over flying villages that were like white-pine toys cut in the cisalpine Alps and invitingly more clipped and groomed than the straggling Indiana towns of yesterday.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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The confidence of the Milanese redoubled when they learned that he had promised the members of the assembled clergy to maintain the catholic worship and clergy as already established, and had compelled them to take the oath of fidelity to the cisalpine republic.
Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895
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It was as the faint perfume of the spring wafted up to a prisoner in some stern fortress, as the first gentle sweetness that rose from the enchanted lakes of the cisalpine country to the nostrils of the war-hardened Goths as they descended the last snow-slopes in their southern wandering -- an anticipation that seemed already a memory, a looking forward again to something that had been already loved in a former state.
Saracinesca 1881
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African, perhaps, irritant certainly to cisalpine eyes, he undoubtedly attained the colouring you associate with sun-stroke, only possible under a sun in which dead things rot quickly.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866
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(Circum also takes the form circu, as circuit.) Cis, on this side, as cisalpine.
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Mago, in cisalpine Gaul, was too far off to render aid.
Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852
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The confidence of the Milanese redoubled when they learned that he had promised the members of the assembled clergy to maintain the catholic worship and clergy as already established, and had compelled them to take the oath of fidelity to the cisalpine republic.
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete Louis Constant Wairy 1811
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Inconsistencies and nonparallelisms abound: cisatlantic is in but not cisalpine; tramontane but not cismontane; poikilothermal but not homoiothermal.
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Theiner: Histoire des deux concordats de la république française et de la république cisalpine conclus en 1801 et 1813, entre Napoléon Bonaparte et le Saint-Siège.]
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
July 19, 2009