Word Meanings - EXTRATERRITORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Beyond the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction; exterritorial. -- Ex`tra*ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly , adv.

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• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• PARTICULARISM
  The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
• EXTERRITORIAL
  Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction. -- Ex*ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly ,adv.
• JURISDICTION
  The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes,
• TERRITORY
  1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. Milton. 2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or
• EXTERRITORIALITY
  1. The state of being beyond the limits of a country. 2. The state of being free from the jurisdiction of a country when within its territorial limits.
• PARTICULARMENT
  A particular; a detail.
• PARTICULARIZATION
  The act of particularizing. Coleridge.
• PARTICULARIST
  One who holds to particularism. -- Par*tic`u*lar*is"tic, a.
• JURISDICTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights. Barrow.
• PARTICULARIZE
  To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail. He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Atterbury.
• PARTICULAR
  Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. Some men are wise; Some men are not wise. Particular average. See under Average.
• SUPERPARTICULAR
  Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4. Hutton.