mediterraneous
English
editAdjective
editmediterraneous (comparative more mediterraneous, superlative most mediterraneous)
- (obsolete) inland
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- either it is found in Mountains and mediterraneous parts
- a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
- […] the Mediterraneous Mountains, or thoſe that are at a great Distance from the Sea
References
edit- “mediterraneous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.