Forane
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Obsolete form of foreign. alt-of, obsolete
"[T]he Bay of Galway [is] so well seated for Merchandize, that it has been lookd on as the greatest Place of Trade in all Ireland; insomuch that a forane Merchant meeting an Irishman, asked him in what Part of Galway Ireland stood?"
- 2 Only used in vicar forane and vicariate forane. not-comparable, postpositional
Example
More examples"[T]he Bay of Galway [is] so well seated for Merchandize, that it has been lookd on as the greatest Place of Trade in all Ireland; insomuch that a forane Merchant meeting an Irishman, asked him in what Part of Galway Ireland stood?"
Etymology
See foreign.
Borrowed from Medieval Latin forāneus (“from elsewhere, foreign, non-resident”), from forās (“outdoors”) + -āneus, likely formed by analogy with extrāneus.
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