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Forane

adj

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Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Only used in vicar forane and vicariate forane. not-comparable, postpositional

Etymology

Etymology 1

See foreign.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Medieval Latin forāneus (“from elsewhere, foreign, non-resident”), from forās (“outdoors”) + -āneus, likely formed by analogy with extrāneus.

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