mediterraneous
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mediterraneous (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
- 1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], →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.