mediterraneous

English

Adjective

mediterraneous (comparative more mediterraneous, superlative most mediterraneous)

1. (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

• “mediterraneous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.