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adjective

Intramural adj.

Being within the walls, as of a city.

Hence: Of or pertaining to those activities occurring within a single institution or organization, such as intramural sports involving students of a single school; an intramural debate within a professional society.

(Anat. & Med.) Being within the substance of the walls of an organ; as, intramural pregnancy.

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Etymology of 'Intramural'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intramural" Quotes from Famous Books

... court to the door his father had entered and emerged later in a street dress of mantle and close-fitting coif. He took up the wallet and quitted the room. Passing through the intramural park and the chamber of guests, he entered the street. It was a narrow, featureless passage, scarcely wide enough to give room for a chariot. The brown dust had more prints of naked than of sandaled feet, for most men of the young sculptor's ...

— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller

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