forane

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English

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Etymology 1

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See foreign.

Adjective

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forane (comparative more forane, superlative most forane)

  1. Obsolete form of foreign.
    • 1745, Guy Miege, The Present State of Great Britain, and Ireland, page 443:
      [T]he Bay of Galway [is] so well seated for Merchandize, that it has been lookd on as the greatest Place of Trade in all Ireland; insomuch that a forane Merchant meeting an Irishman, asked him in what Part of Galway Ireland stood?

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin forāneus (from elsewhere, foreign, non-resident), from forās (outdoors) + -āneus, likely formed by analogy with extrāneus.

Adjective

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forane (not comparable) (postpositive)

  1. Only used in vicar forane and vicariate forane

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