Outdweller
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere.
"I apprehend the churchyard of a parish belongs in different ways both to the minister and the churchwardens; for I take the soil or surface to belong in general to the minister, and the interior part to the parishioners for burial; and consequently I think that no foreigner or outdweller ought to be buried in the churchyard of the parish mentioned in this case (unless when a traveller or accidental comer happens to die there), without the consent both of the minister and the churchwardens."
- 2 One who lives outside the current locale; an outsider or non-citizen.
"Even in the case with which we started, the outdweller from civilization, who supplies all his own wants and those of his family, produces only for his and their consumption."
Example
More examples"I apprehend the churchyard of a parish belongs in different ways both to the minister and the churchwardens; for I take the soil or surface to belong in general to the minister, and the interior part to the parishioners for burial; and consequently I think that no foreigner or outdweller ought to be buried in the churchyard of the parish mentioned in this case (unless when a traveller or accidental comer happens to die there), without the consent both of the minister and the churchwardens."
Etymology
From out- + dweller.
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