a. [f. EXTRA- pref. + Eccl. Lat. parochi-a (see PARISH) + -AL.] Not included in any parish; outside the parish; exempt from liability to parish obligations. Also fig. (nonce-use). Outside one’s legitimate province.
1674–81. Blount, Glossogr., Extra-parochial.
1721. Act Parl., in Lond. Gaz., No. 5927/5. Townships, Vills, or Extraparochial Places.
1765. Blackstone, Comm., I. 284. The king … is entitled to all the tithes arising in extraparochial places.
1853. Dickens, Bleak Ho., xxxviii. Thavies Inn, within the city of London, but extra-parochial.
Mod. The district of Skiddaw Forest is extra-parochial.
fig. 1868. M. Pattison, Academ. Org., v. 290. All such inquiries are looked upon by the student with contempt, as extra-parochial.
Hence Extra-parochially adv., in an extra-parochial manner. Extra-parochialness, the condition of being extra-parochial.
a. 1806. S. Horsley, Charges (1813), 207. A chapel extra-parochially situate.
1727–36. Bailey, Extraparochialness.
