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Etymology

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From extra-popular.

Adjective

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extrapopular (not comparable)

  1. Outside of the populace.
    • 1849, George Grote, A History of Greece, volume 4, page 211:
      [] an extrapopular or privileged few []
    • 1946, Herbert Wallace Schneider, A History of American Philosophy, volume 10, page 151:
      It is of a self-evolving and genetic nature, and thus is contradistinguished from governments founded on extrapopular principles, such as divine right.