a. [TRANS- 7, 8.] a. Across or crossing the Pacific Ocean.
b. On the other side of the Pacific.
1846. Rep. Sen. Comm. in Buffalo Commercial, 1 Sept., 2/3. It [the Whitney Railroad] will give to these states the same advantages by means of the trans-Pacific trade which will flow through this channel, that the trans-Atlantic trade gives to the Eastern portion of our Union.
1891. Scribner’s Mag., Sept., 280/2. A newly organized transpacific service, running by way of Yokohama to Vancouver.
1897. Daily News, 30 Jan., 6/1. The proposed ‘All-British Trans-Pacific Cable.’
1906. Athenæum, 17 Feb., 193/3. The Cardinal’s Trans-Pacific experiences have accustomed him to such liberties.
