forane

See foreign.

forane (comparative more forane, superlative most forane)

1. Obsolete form of foreign.
   • 1745, Guy Miege, The Present State of Great Britain, and Ireland, page 443:

     [T]he Bay of Galway [is] so well seated for Merchandize, that it has been lookd on as the greatest Place of Trade in all Ireland; insomuch that a forane Merchant meeting an Irishman, asked him in what Part of Galway Ireland stood?

Borrowed from Medieval Latin forāneus (“from elsewhere, foreign, non-resident”), from forās (“outdoors”) + -āneus, likely formed by analogy with extrāneus.

forane (not comparable) (postpositive)

1. Only used in vicar forane and vicariate forane

• Fearon, no fear