Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not within or reckoned within the limits of a parish, or of any parish: as, extraparochial land; extraparochial charities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Beyond the limits of a parish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Beyond the limits of a
parish .
Etymologies
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extra- + parochial
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Examples
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WILLIAM BOWYER, confessedly the most learned Printer of the Eighteenth Century, was born in Dogwell Court, in the extraparochial precinct of White Fryars, Loi; idon, Dec. 19; 1699; and may be said to have been initiated from his infancy in the rudiments of the art in which he so eminentty excelled.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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