Defn: Situated or being beyond the sea. Burke.
ULTRAMARINE
Ul`tra*ma*rine", n. Etym: [Cf. Sp. ultramarino. So called because the
lapis lazuli was originally brought from beyond the sea, — from
Asia.] (Chem.)
Defn: A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively. Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment. — Ultramarine ash or ashes (Paint.), a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after the ultramarine has been extracted. It was used by the old masters as a middle or neutral tint for flesh, skies, and draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray that produced by the mixture of more positive colors. Fairholt.
ULTRAMONTANE Ul`tra*mon"tane, Etym: [LL. ultramontanus; L. ultra beyond + montanus belonging to a mountain, from mons, montis, mountain: cf. F. ultramontain, It. ultramontano. See Ultra-, and Mountain.]
Defn: 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.
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.
ULTRAMONTANISM
Ul`tra*mon"ta*nism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. ultramontanisme.]