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ultramontane


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ultramontane  \Ul`tra*mon"tane\,  n. 
  1.  One  who  resides  beyond  the  mountains,  especially  beyond 
  the  Alps;  a  foreigner. 
 
  2.  One  who  maintains  extreme  views  favoring  the  pope's 
  supremacy.  See  {Ultramontanism}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ultramontane  \Ul`tra*mon"tane\,  [LL.  ultramontanus  L.  ultra 
  beyond  +  montanus  belonging  to  a  mountain,  from  mons,  montis, 
  mountain:  cf  F.  ultramontain  It  ultramontano.  See 
  {Ultra-},  and  {Mountain}.] 
  Being  beyond  the  mountains;  specifically,  being  beyond  the 
  Alps,  in  respect  to  the  one  who  speaks. 
 
  Note:  This  term  was  first  applied,  somewhat  contemptuously, 
  by  the  Italians,  to  the  nations  north  of  the  Alps, 
  especially  the  Germans  and  French,  their  painters, 
  jurists,  etc  At  a  later  period,  the  French  and  Germans 
  applied  it  to  the  Italians.  It  is  now  more  particularly 
  used  in  respect  to  religious  matters;  and  ultramontane 
  doctrines,  when  spoken  of  north  of  the  Alps,  denote  the 
  extreme  views  of  the  pope's  rights  and  supremacy 
  maintained  by  Bellarmin  and  other  Italian  writers. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ultramontane 
  adj  1:  on  or  relating  to  or  characteristic  of  the  region  or  peoples 
  beyond  the  Alps  from  Italy  (or  north  of  the  Alps); 
  "ancient  transalpine  Gaul  was  an  area  northwest  of  the 
  Alps  and  included  modern  France  and  Belgium";  "Cracow 
  was  a  transalpine  university"  [syn:  {transalpine}] 
  2:  on  the  Italian  or  Roman  side  of  the  Alps;  "ancient  cisalpine 
  Gaul  included  an  area  south  and  east  of  the  Alps"  [syn:  {cisalpine}] 




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