MG> MG> Extra-marital indicates adultery, so you've lost me.
MG>  > Not necessarily. };)  If you check a dictionary you'll see that
MG>  > while it can mean adultery, in the strictest literal sense all it
MG>  > really connotes is "outside of marriage," which can as well mean
MG>  > "in the absence of wedlock." 
MG> RS> Extra means additional. So couldn't that mean 'in addition to
MG> RS> marriage'?
MG> RS> Which might also mean 'adultery'? 
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".
I just love it when I get to be like Gunny Foley in "An Officer
& a Gentleman." 
If you'll check one of your Oxfords (a bit more of a standard than
either Webster's 10th or the pop American Heritage (2nd, of course
) you'll find that that's far from the only meaning of the
word.  Of course if one *prefers* to limit to abridged tools, I
suppose one could claim there was only one definition.

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