preterˈlegal, a. rare.
Also præter-.
[f. preter- + legal.]
Beyond or outside of what is legal; not according to law.
| 1648 Eikon Bas. xi. 91, I expected..some evill customes preterlegall, and abuses personall had been to be removed. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Cheshire (1662) i. 178 Sir Randal..openly manifested his dislike of such Preter-legal Courses. 1818 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 189 This illegal or praeter-legal and desultory toleration by connivance at particular cases. |