a. [f. TRANS- + OCEANIC. Cf. F. transocéanique (Littré).]
1. Existing or situated beyond the ocean; also transf. pertaining to a region beyond the ocean.
1827. Blackw. Mag., XXII. 602. Their pristine transoceanic partiality for dram-drinking.
1872. Daily News, 25 March. Then, England … employed her influence … in establishing the principle … of a threepenny rate for European letters, and a sixpenny rate for those intended for trans-oceanic countries.
1899. Dublin Rev., Jan., 67. Glimpses of a transoceanic world.
1902. J. Leighton, in Publ. Circ., 8 Feb., 156/2. This device was admired by our transoceanic relatives.
2. Passing or extending across the ocean.
1846. Royal Cornwall Gaz., 17 April, 4/1. Though Steam and its application to trans-oceanic navigation has for the present thrown a shade on the prosperity of the Port by taking from it the Packets for a time, yet that it will at last become the instrument of new and increased prosperity.
1868. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (ed. 10), II. III. xli. 420. We probably still remain ignorant of many means of transoceanic migration.
1884. Q. Rev., April, 453. The most vigilant supervision was exercised over the means of inland and transoceanic transport.
1892. Times, 2 May, 9/2. In 1871 … the total transoceanic emigration from the United Kingdom was 252,435.
