单词 | preterlegal |
释义 | † preterlegaladj. Obsolete. rare. Beyond or outside what is legal; not according to law. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] > beyond the law exorbitantc1460 extrajudicial1641 preterlegal1649 exlex1909 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη xi. 91 I expected..some evill customes preterlegall, and abuses personall had been to be removed. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Chesh. 178 Sir Randal..openly manifested his dislike of such Præter-legal Courses. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Preterlegal, not agreeable to law. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 189 This illegal or præter-legal and desultory toleration by connivance at particular cases. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < |
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