Meanings
- not comparableOutside of the populace.
[…] an extrapopular or privileged few […]
1849, George Grote, A History of Greece, volume 4, page 2111 more example
It is of a self-evolving and genetic nature, and thus is contradistinguished from governments founded on extrapopular principles, such as divine right.
1946, Herbert Wallace Schneider, A History of American Philosophy, volume 10, page 151
Origin
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