extraregular
adjEtymology From extra- + regular.
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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:
- 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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- 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:
- 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:
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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:
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Mathematics, Sciences Meeting stricter criteria than those which define a regular (object, function, space, etc)
- Derived terms
- extraregularly