extraregular

Not covered by a rule or rules; not fitting into a system.

Adjective

  1. 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
  2. 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...
  3. Meeting stricter criteria than those which define a regular (object, function, space, etc)

Origin

From extra- + regular.

Derived

extraregularly