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cisatlantic

American  
[sis-uht-lan-tik] / ˌsɪs ətˈlæn tɪk /

adjective

  1. on this (the speaker's or writer's) side of the Atlantic.


Etymology

Origin of cisatlantic

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85; cis- + Atlantic

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Men yet living can remember when in the eyes of the universal church of learning, all cisatlantic countries, our own included, were partes infidelium.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon

America did not become a cisatlantic Britain, as some of the colonial adventurers had hoped.

From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Orth, Samuel Peter

The present memoir will, therefore, simply comprise a brief sketch of the most interesting portion of Mr. Brown's history while in America, together with a short account of his subsequent cisatlantic career.

From Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by Brown, William Wells

Our second, never to suffer Europe to meddle in cisatlantic affairs.”

From Thomas Jefferson by Merwin, Henry Childs

The opinions of some carried their own condemnation in their obvious extravagance; and hyperbolical admiration fairly ran itself out of breath in speaking of the wonders of this cisatlantic young Roscius.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

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