extraregular en · ADJ
Etymology
From extra- + regular.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not covered by a rule or rules; not fitting into a system.
If any extraregular example hath ever happened , that may be made use of to affright men[…]
1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:Attempts to ascertain the institutional origins of these extraregular movements have met with varied success .
2012, Joanne Maguire Robinson, Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Soulspage=29:While most recent suggestions have focused on the monastic, it may be worth remembering that Jonah was a favourite of lay and extraregular readers well into the Reformation, when it was tranlated by Tyndale and supplied with a passionate prologue on the nature of Christian patience.
2002, David Lawton, “Englishing the Bible”, in David Wallace, editor, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, page 480:Mathilda became a nun, and Adelheid cherished her monastic friendships with Cluniac monks, but extraregular widowed piety was also presented as a viable option for widowed holiness.
2002, Katherine Ann Clark, Pious Widowhood in the Middle Ages, page 102:
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(not-comparable) Hypernormal.
Transformed deviants tend to become not merely moral but hypermoral. They are not simply "reformed" or "rehabilitated" into regular people with regular jobs and regular lives. They become extraregular people , have extraregular jobs ( even if the job is not the way they make a living ) , and live extraregular lives .
2002, John Lofland, Deviance and Identity, page 282:
- (not-comparable) Meeting stricter criteria than those which define a regular (object, function, space, etc)