Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated on this side of the mountains, especially the Alps.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated on this (the speaker's) side of the mountain; specifically, on the northern side of the Alps (with special reference to the relation of the peoples north of Italy to the see of Rome): opposed to ultramontane.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective On this side of the mountains. See under
ultramontane .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective From this side of the
mountains .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains
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Examples
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The cismontane people opposed this, since any change in this direction would tend to place too much political power in the hands of the westerners.
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Naples (1645-48), and Pedro Mancro (1651-55) tried without success to give definite statutes to the cismontane family, while the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Chapter of Salamanca (1554), Clemente Dolera of Moneglia, the general in office promulgated new statutes for the cismontane family.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The new province thenceforth belonged to the cismontane family.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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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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1443 Antonio appointed two vicars-general to direct the Observants -- for the cismontane family (i.e. for Italy, the East, Austria-Hungary, and Poland) St. John Capistran, and for the ultramontane (all other countries, including afterwards America) jean Perioche of Maubert.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
reesetee commented on the word cismontane
On this side of the mountains. Compare to tramontane.
August 31, 2007