Extramuros: {1} In Old Orth, literally "outside the walls." Often used in reference to the walled city-states of that age. {2} In Middle Orth, the non-mathic world; the turbulent and violent state of affairs that prevailed after the Fall of Baz. {3} In Praxic Orth, geographical regions or social classes not yet enlightened by the resurgent wisdom of the mathic world. {4} In New Orth, similar to sense 2 above, but often used to denote those settlements immediately surrounding the walls of a math, implying comparative prosperity, stability, etc. -THE DICTIONARY, 4th edition, A.R. 3000
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