extraregular

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

extra- +‎ regular

Adjective[edit]

extraregular (not comparable)

  1. Not covered by a rule or rules.
    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; [], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: [] James Flesher, for Richard Royston [], →OCLC:
      If any extraregular example hath ever happened , that may be made use of to affright men []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for extraregular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)