maritimatet (maritimat)

[ Leaving his own name to some mar it i mate province on that side. Raleigh , Hist. World, i. 8. maritime (mar'i-tim or-tim), a . [Formerly also maritim ; F.maritime = Sp. marítimo = Pg. It. maritimo , maritimus , also mar it umus , of or belonging to the sea, mare , the sea: see ma rine.] 1. Of, pertaining to, or connected with the sea or its uses; having physical relation to the sea: as, maritime dangers or pursuits; a maritime town or power. The borders maritime Lack blood to think on 't. Shak ., A. and C., i. 4. 51. But the Mahometans made the midst of the land the seat of their Empire, both the better to keep the whole in subjection, and for fear of the Christians invading the maritim places. 2. Relating to or concerned with marine navigation, employment, or interests: as, maritime law; a maritime project. Sandys, Travailes (1652), p. 85. His youth and want of experience in maritime service. Sir H. Wotton, Duke of Bucking ham. ( Latham.) Even in the maritime reign of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Edward Coke thinks it matter of boast that the royal navy of England then consisted of three-and-thirty ships. Black stone , Com., I. xiii. The mo e and the marra e , the mounttez so hye. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2014. It was built of a Marish , because of Earthquakes. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 330. Flanked with a ditch, and forced out of a marish . B. Jonson, Underwoods, lxii. And far through the marish green and still The tangled water-courses slept. Tennyson, Dying Swan. II. a . Marshy. [Now only poetical.] This Countrey of Moscouie hath also very many and great riuers in it, and is marish ground in many places. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 247. The frank sun of natures clear and rare Breeds poisonous fogs in low and marish minds. Lowell , Dara.