Citations:transregionate

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English citations of transregionate

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  • 1885 June 18, “Drops from the Basket”, in Iron County Register, Iron County, Missouri, page 1:
    [] their whole manner one of philosophical bearing, and which might have led a stranger to think he had been transregionated, and was an inhabitant of Greece during the sixth century before Christ, and an associate of the Seven Wise Men of that period.
  • [1910 May 6, “Astonishing English Dictionary”, in Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, page 8:
    "Epiphenomenon," "transregionate"—who would use these lumbering locutions to describe a walk in the country, though one transregionated among never so many superimposed phenomena of nature.]
  • 1919, Carleton W. Stanley, “Self Catechism”, in Sir Andrew Macphail, editor, The University Magazine, Vol. XVIII, page 39:
    Both in Ontario and in the Lower Provinces it happened early in our history, that a clique of transregionated snobs attempted to appropriate the colleges and schools to their own political and social behoof []