a. [f. EXTRA- pref. + med.L. forāne-us (f. foris door) + -OUS. After the analogy of L. circumforāneus, f. circum around + forum the forum.] Out-door.
1781. Cowper, Lett., 2 April. A variety of extra-foraneous occupations … make it difficult for me to find opportunities of writing. Ibid. (1788), Wks. (1876), 288. We live near to each other and while the Hall is empty are each other’s only extraforaneous comfort.
1830. Macgillivray, Withering’s Brit. Plants, Pref. A compendious description of our native plants … neither too bulky for extra-foraneous use, nor too expensive.
1891. J. P. Sheldon, in Times, 17 March, 4/4. Extraforaneous farm animals took no harm whatever.
