extraregular

English

Etymology

From extra- +‎ regular.

Adjective

extraregular (not comparable)

Not covered by a rule or rules; not fitting into a system.
- 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:
  If any extraregular example hath ever happened , that may be made use of to affright men […]
- 2002, Katherine Ann Clark, Pious Widowhood in the Middle Ages, page 102:
  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, David Lawton, “Englishing the Bible”, in David Wallace, editor, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, page 480:
  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.
- 2012, Joanne Maguire Robinson, Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Soulspage=29:
  Attempts to ascertain the institutional origins of these extraregular movements have met with varied success .
Hypernormal.
- 2002, John Lofland, Deviance and Identity, page 282:
  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 .
(mathematics) Meeting stricter criteria than those which define a regular (object, function, space, etc)

Derived terms

extraregularly