Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Exceeding the limits of law; not legal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Exceeding the limits of law.

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  • adjective Exceeding the limits of law.

Etymologies

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preter- +‎ legal

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