extrinsical
English
Adjective
extrinsical (comparative more extrinsical, superlative most extrinsical)
- (rare) Extrinsic.
- Kenelm Digby, Of Bodies.
- A body cannot move, unless it be moved by some extrinsical agent: we may easily frame a conceit, how absurd it is to think that a body, by a quality in it, can work upon itself.
- John Ray ,The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the Creation.
- Neither is the atom by any extrinsical impulse diverted from its natural course.
- John Locke, Of Ideas in general, and their Original, Book II , Chapter I.
- Outward objects, that are extrinsical to the mind; and its own operations, proceeding from powers intrinsical, and proper to itself, which, when reflected on by itself, become also objects of its contemplation, are the original of all knowledge.
- Kenelm Digby, Of Bodies.
References
- “extrinsical” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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