On 03-19-98 Bill Nichols wrote to Maureen Goldman... 
 
 MG> Webster's Collegiate (10th): "extramarital: of, or relating to, 
 MG> or being sexual intercourse between a married person and someone 
 MG> oher than his or her spouse: ADULTEROUS". 
 
 BN> I just love it when I get to be like Gunny Foley in "An Officer 
 BN> & a Gentleman."  
 
 Sorry, that reference is lost on me due to the passage of time. 
 The black drill instructor? 
 
 BN> If you'll check one of your Oxfords (a bit more of a standard than 
 BN> either Webster's 10th or the pop American Heritage (2nd, of course 
 BN> ) you'll find that that's far from the only meaning of the 
 BN> word.  Of course if one *prefers* to limit to abridged tools, I 
 BN> suppose one could claim there was only one definition. 
 BN>  
 
 "Extramarital" isn't in my first edition (unabridged) OED or the 
 1933 supplement.  Lots of "extra-" words and an explanation of 
 the prefix to mean "outside of", but that's about it. 
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