extramural (ekstramural)

[Cf. LL. ex tramuranus, beyond the walls; The term cemetery has been appropriately applied in modern times to the burial grounds, generally extra mural , which have been substituted for the over-crowded churchyards of populous parishes. Encyc . Brit ., V. 329. The peculiar arrangements by which medical men not connected with the university give instruction, and prepare young men for medical graduation. " Extra - mural " instruction is the term employed. Science, III. 371. extraneity (eks-tra-nē'i-ti), n. [ home a deleterious and debauching influence upon public E. Schuyler, Amer. Diplomacy, p. 91. extraordinarily (eks-trôr'- or eks-tra-ôr'di-nā- ri-li), adv . 1. In an extraordinary manner; in an uncommon degree; remarkably; eminently. For I begin to forget all my hate, And tak't unkindly that mine enemy Should use me so extraordinarily scurvily. IMG:content-0965.png:[blocks in formation] duchies. Woolsey , Introd. to Inter. Law, App. ii., p. 428. It is an extraordinary fact that the Old Testament He- brews, though not wholly without the idea of existence after death, had yet no distinct idea of future reward and punishment. J. Hadley, E ays, p. 378. 2. Not pertaining to a regular system or se- quence; exceptional; special: as, an extra or- ognized by the university as of the first rank of importance. In the middle ages ordinary lectures were so called because their subjects, forms, times, and places were fixed by the faculty or nation, while those of the extraordinary lectures were within certain limits left to the will of the lecturer. The extraordinary lectures could only be given at times not occupied by ordinary lectures. They treated of every subject except logic, theology, law, and medicine. 4. Exceeding the common degree or measure; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonder- ful: as, the extraordinary genius of Shakspere; an edifice of extraordinary grandeur. - Envoy ex- traordinary and minister plenipotentiary. See en- voy2.- Extraordinary care, in law , the utmost or high- est degree of care. See negligence . - Extraordinary ray, in optics . See refraction . The vibrations of the extraordinary ray are in the plane of the principal plane of cleavage itself. =Syn. Unusual, singular, extra, unwonted, signal, egre- gio us, marvelous, prodigious, strange, preposterous. II. n.; pl. extraordinaries (-riz). 1. Anything uncommon or unusual; a thing exceeding the usual order, practice, or method. (Rare.] Their extraordinary did consist especially in the matter of prayers and devotion; for that was eminent in them. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), Ι. 643. All the extraordinaries in the world, which fall out by no steady rules and causes, I style prodigies preternatural. J. Spencer, Prodigies. 21. An expre me enger or courier. Since we came to this town, there arrived an extra ord i- nary from Spain. Donne, Letters, lxviii. 3t. Extra expense or indulgence. I attended him also with the note of your extra ord in a ries , wherein I find him something difficult and dilatory barracks, encampments, etc. extraordinaryt (eks-trôr'- or eks-tra-ôr'di-na- ri), adv . [ The A chinese seem not to be extraordinary good at Ac- Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 137. extra parochially (eks trä-pa-ro'ki-al-i), adv . In an extra parochial manner or relation. But it is farther enacted, "that the registers of all such marriages be removed to the parish church,. ог, in case of a chapel extra parochially situate, then to the parish church next adjoining." Horsley, Charges, p. 207. extra peritoneal (eks" trä-per-i-to-ne'al), a . Situated outside of the peritoneal cavity. extra plantar (eks-trä-plan tür), a. [L. extra , outside, + planta , the sole of the foot (> plan- tar is , adj.): see plantigrade . ] Situated on the outer side of the sole of the foot: opposed to in- traplantar : as, the extra plantar nerve. Coues . extrapolation (eks trä-po-lā'shon), n . The approximate calculation, "from known values of a function for given values of the variable, of another value of the function for a value of the variable smaller than the smallest or larger than the largest of those upon which the calculation is based. Thus, the calculation of the population of the United States in 1900, from the popula- tion in 1870, 1880, and 1890, would be an extrapolation . extra profe ional (eks trä-pro-fesh'on-al), a . Not included within the ordinary limits of pro- fe ional interest or duty. J. Croll, Climate and Time, p. 106. Molina was an ecclesiastic, and these studies were ex- traprofe ional . Med. Repos. extraughtt (eks-trât'), a . [A var. of extract , a., dinary courier me age an amba ador extraordinary ; the extraordinary jurisdiction of pertaining to or situated in the (specified) prov- IMG:content-0966.png:[blocks in formation] Sham'st thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught , To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart? Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 2. Precious liquor, warmed and heightened by a flame, first crowns the ve el, and then dances over its brim into the fire, increasing the cause of its own motion and extravagancy. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 44. extravagant (eks-trav'a-gant), a . and n. [ extravagant = Sp. Pg. extra vag ante = It. estravagante , stravagante , extrava- gan ( t- ) s , pp. of extravagari , wander beyond, extra , beyond, + vagari , wander, stray: see vagrant.] I. a. 1. Wandering beyond bounds or out of the regular course; straying. [Now rare.] The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. obliged to hire very bad horses at an extravagant price. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 59. Of Pope himself he [Byron] spoke with extravagant ad- miration. Macaulay , Moore's Byron. 3. Not comprised within ordinary limits of truth, probability, or propriety; irregular; wild; fantastic: as, extravagant flights of fancy. For a dance they seem'd perhaps from a ociation with the prodigal son of Luke xv. 11-32, suggests most of immorality and reprobation. All these words have lighter figurative uses. An extravagant man, who has nothing else to recom- mend him but a false generosity, is often more beloved than a person of a much more finished character who is defective in this particular. Add is on. Yet was she not profuse ; but fear'd to waste, And wisely managed, that the stock might last. There is one quality of Macaulay's nature, and that, perhaps, the best, which is deserving of lavish eulogium- his intense love of liberty, and his hearty hatred of des- potism. Whipple, E . and Rev., I. 21. Long, cumbrous, and wasteful proce es of natural se- lection and hereditary descent. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 213. Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compa of a guinea. Irving , The Stout Gentleman. II. n. 11. One who wanders about; a vagrant; a vagabond. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 187. 2. One who is confined to no general rule; an eccentric. [Rare.] There are certain extra vag ants among people of all sizes and profe ions. Sir R. L'Estrange. extravasate (eks-trav'a-sāt), a. [ I'm told one clot of blood extravasate Ends one as certainly as Roland's sword. 3. pl . (a) A part of the body of canon law: as, the Extra vag ants of John XXII. and the Extra- vagantes communes of other popes: so called be- cause they treated of matters not in the decre- sate .] Let out of the veins. extreat tract.] Extraction. Some Clarkes doe doubt in their device full art Whether this heavenly thing whereof I treat, To weeten Mercie, be of Justice part, Or drawne forth from her by divine extreate. Spenser, F. Q., V. x. 1. with some of the drollest mimicry that I ever saw. Macaulay , Life and Letters, I. 283. extravagant ne (eks-trav'a-gant-nes), n. Ex- travagance. Bailey , 1727. extravaganza (eks-trav-a-gan'zä), n . [With exfor es-, extravagance .] 1. Something out of rule, extreet (eks'tre), n. [ extre ; a var. of ax- as in music, the drama, etc.; a composition tree, equiv. to axletree , q. v.] An axletree. characterized by extravagant, fantastic, or ca- pricious qualities, as "Hudibras" or "Bom- bastes Furioso"; a burlesque.-2. An extrava- gant flight of feeling or language. extravaganzist (eks-trav-a-gan'zist), n. [ extravaganza + -ist .] A writer of extra vag an- IMG:content-0967.png:[blocks in formation] By the dismantled warrior in old age, Out of the bowels of those very schemes In which his youth did first extravagate . Words worth, Prelude, v. extravagationł (eks-trav-a-ga's hon), n. [ travagate + ion.] Exce ; a wandering be- yond limits. I do not pretend to justify the extravagations of the mob. Smollett . extravasate (eks-trav'a-sat), v. i.; pret. and pp. extravasated , ppr. extravasating . [ travasatus , only as adj., as if pp. of * extra vas are (> Sp. extravasar ( se ) = Pg. extravasar = F. ex- travaser ), extra , beyond, + vas , ve el: see vase , ve el .] In pathol ., to become infiltrated To forbid the overflowings and intercourses of pity upon such occasions were the extremest of euils. Bacon , Moral Fables, vii., Expl. Why, therefore, fire: for I have caught extreme cold. Shak ., T. of the S., iv. 1. to habits or character, the others to acts. All apply to that which is immoderate or unreasonable in quantity or degree; wasteful to that which is injuriously so. One may be extravagant or wasteful with a small sum; it re- quires a large sum to enable one to be profuse , lavish, or prodigal. Lavish is stronger than profuse . Prodigal , God ever mindful in all strife and strait, Who, for our own good, makes the need extreme , Till at the last He puts forth might and saves. Browning , Ring and Book, II. 50. extreme This single bilateral symmetry remains constant under the extremest modifications of form. H. Spencer , Prin. of Biol., § 252. 3. Exacting or severe to the utmost. If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done ami , O Lord, who may abide it? Book of Common Prayer , Psalter, cxxx. 3. Posterity is not extreme to mark abortive crimes. Macaulay , Hallam's Const. Hist. 4. In music, superfluous or augmented: thus, the extreme sharp sixth is the augmented sixth. - Chord of the extreme sixth, a chord which in its regular form contains an augmented sixth, as in fig. a.- Extreme fifth. See fifth , n., 2.- Extreme intervals, in music , expanded, augmented, or superfluous intervals: as, the extreme sixth (that is, the augmented or sharped sixth). - Extreme key, in music , a key not closely related to a given key. Extreme parts, in music , the parts or voices that lie at the top and bottom of the harmony; usually, the soprano and ba . - Extreme unc tion. See unction. To cut a line in extreme and mean ratio, to cut it into two parts such that the le er is to the greater as the greater is to the whole-that is, the ratio of the whole to the greater is (5+1), while that of the le er to the greater is (15-1). = Syn. 1. Uttermost, most distant, most remote, terminal.-2. Final, ultimate, utter. II. n. 1. The utmost point or verge of a thing; that part which terminates a body; an extremity; the end or one of the ends, especially of correlated parts, of a body. With this wind they run away in the same parellel 35 or 36 d. before they cro the line again to the northward, which is about midway between the extremes of both promontories. Dampier , Voyages, II. ii. 9. 2. The utmost limit or degree that can be supposed or tolerated; either of two states, qualities, or feelings as different from each other as po ible; the highest or the lowest degree: as, the extremes of heat and cold; avoid extremes. IMG:content-0968.png:[blocks in formation] Yet is this City subject to both the extreams of weather. Sandys, Travailes, p. 169. The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both, though in one it is decorated with refinements, and in the other brutal. Emerson, Fortune of the Republic. 3t. Extremity; utmost need or distre . I will not hide What thoughts in my unquiet breast are risen, Tending to some relief of our extremes , Or end. Milton , P. L., x. 976. 4. In logic, the subject or the predicate of a categorical proposition; specifically, the subject or the predicate of the conclusion of a syllogism; either of two terms which are separated in the premises and brought together in the conclusion. The major extreme is the predicate of the conclusion; the minor extreme, the subject of the conclusion. The major is also called the first extreme; the minor, the second extreme. 5. In math.: ( a ) Either of the first and last terms of a proportion, or of any other related sequence or series of terms: as, when three magnitudes are proportional, the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal to the square of the mean. (b) The largest or the smallest of three or more magnitudes. If any three unequall numbers be proposed, they have this proper tie: that the product of their meane number by the total of both the ods or differences whereby the ext reames differ from the same meane countervayles both the products made of each extreame by this fellowes differ ance or ods. T. Hill , Arithmetic (1600), fol. 31. (c) Any part of a right-angled or quadrantal spherical triangle other than the part a umed as mean. The two extremes nearest the mean are called the conjunct extremes, the other two the disjunct extremes. - In the extreme, in the highest or utmost degree. All colours in Brazil, whether of birds, insects, or flowers, are brilliant in the extreme. Lady Bra ey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. iv. The extremes of an interval, in music, the two sounds most distant from each other. To go to extremes, to proceed to an extremity in some course or action; use extreme measures or methods; carry one's opinions or proceedings to the utmost limit or consequences. =Syn. See extremity. extremet (eks-trēm'), adv. [ The colde is extreame sharpe, but here the Prover be is true, that no extreame long continueth. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, I. 114. Lord Peter, even in his lucid intervals, was very lewdly given in his common conversation, extreme wilful and positive. Swift , Tale of a Tub, iv. extreme le (eks-trēm'les), a. [ extreme + -le .] Having no extremes or extremities; infinite. Bailey , 1727. IMG:content-0969.png:[blocks in formation] care, extricate: see extricate.] Capable of being extricated. Germ above roundish-egged, very villous, scarce extri cable from the calyx enclosing and grasping it. Sir W. Jones, Select Indian Plants. extricate (eks'tri-kāt), v . t.; pret. and pp. ex tricated , ppr. extricating . [ extricatus , pp. very gre great degree; exceedingly: as, extremely hot or cold; extremely painful. It rained most extremely without any ceasing. Coryat, Crudities, L. 57. I swear thou shalt fight with me, or thou shalt be beaten extremely and kicked. Beau, and Fl., King and No King, iii. 2. extremene (eks-trēm'nes), n. The quality of of extricare, disentangle, extricate, IMG:content-0970.png:[blocks in formation] It [the anti-saloon movement] recognizes the futility of extremism. New York Semi - weekly Tribune , Aug. 26, 1887.