Word Meanings - PRETERLEGAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Exceeding the limits of law.

Related words: (words related to PRETERLEGAL)

• EXCEEDING
  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• EXCEEDABLE
  Capable of exceeding or surpassing. Sherwood.
• EXCEEDER
  One who exceeds. Bp. Montagu.
• EXCEED
  To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc. ; one offender exceeds another
• EXCEEDINGLY
  To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.