paradiplomaticadj.

1854 C. J. Ellicott Crit. Comm. Epist. Gal. Pref. p. xvi I have always endeavoured, first, to ascertain the exact nature of the diplomatic evidence; secondly, that of what I have termed para-diplomatic arguments.., by which I mean the apparent probabilities of erroneous transcription, permutation of letters, itacism, and so forth.

1879 Expositor 9 29 The passage is still to be retained in spite of evidence both external and internal, both diplomatic and paradiplomatic.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 448 One of those cases in which the reading of the existing MSS. is outweighed by other authorities and other considerations. Note: To express the same thing technically, the diplomatic is outweighed by the paradiplomatic evidence.

1908 Catholic Encycl. at Textual Criticism Resulting from the examination of the text itself independently of its extrinsic attestation—paradiplomatic evidence.

1959 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 53 397 Before 1955, the Supreme Soviet as such engaged in little para-diplomatic activity nor did it exhibit any great passion for establishing contacts with parliaments in other countries.

1963 E. Taylor Fall of Dynasties x. 193 Russian diplomatic and paradiplomatic operations in the Balkans between 1909 and 1914 furnish the classic example.

1976 Internat. Jrnl. Middle East Stud. 7 480 The number of parliamentary inquiries..kept pace with growing press interest and swelling public sentiment—some of it no doubt the result of Hagopian's paradiplomatic efforts.

1998 F. W. Brecher Losing a Continent xiii. 178 Spain was naturally mistrustful of Choiseul's chosen ‘paradiplomatic’ channel for his negotiations with England (it was only beginning in September that those negotiations would be conducted directly between the two powers).