external 
outside ; located in a part of space not occu- 
pied by or within the thing referred to. 
Without being struck or pushed by anything exti'i-nai. 
bnilies which are alive suddenly change from rest to move- 
ment, or from movement to rest. 
11. Spencer, Prlii. of Sociol., 62. 
2. Outer or outermost; specifically, inzool., on 
the side furthest away from the body, from the 
median line, or from the center of a radially 
symmetrical form: as, the external side of an 
insect's leg ; the external edge of the carapace ; 
external border, etc. 3. Being outside in any 
figurative sense; coming from or pertaining to 
the outside; not internal: as, external evidence ; 
specifically, in metaph., forming part of or per- 
taining to the world of things or phenomena in 
space, considered as outside of the perceiving 
mind. 
The self of which we are conscious is manifold in its 
states and because it stands in relation to an external 
world. E. Caird, Encyc. Brit., XVI. 83. 
4. Belonging to a thing in its relations with 
other things ; extrinsic : as, external constraint. 
God, to the intent of further healing mans deprav'd 
mind, to this power of the Magistral which contents it self 
with the restraint of evil doing in the external man added 
that which we call censure, to purge and remove it clean 
out of the inmost soul. Milton, Church-Government, ii. 3. 
Religion . . . will glide by degrees out of the mind, un- 
less it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordi- 
nances. Johnson, Milton. 
5. Outward; exterior; visible from the out- 
side ; hence, capable of being perceived ; ap- 
parent. 
If they had swallowed poison, 'twould appear 
By external swelling. Shak., A. and C., v. 2. 
Nothing more is to be granted to the sacraments than to 
the external word of God. 
Peter Martyr, in Bradford's Works (Parker Soc., 1853), 
[II. 404. 
6. Pertaining to the surface merely; superfi- 
cial: as, external culture. 7. Foreign; relat- 
ing to or connected with foreign nations : as, 
external trade or commerce ; the external rela- 
tions of a state or kingdom External absorp- 
tion. See cutaneous absorption, under absorption. Ex- 
ternal adjunct, in logic, an object, sign, or circum- 
stance. External agreement, agreement in regard to 
an external adjunct. External angle. See angle*, 1. 
External capsule. See capsule. External cause, a 
cause not a part of the thing caused, namely, either an 
efficient or a final cause : opposed to matter and to form. 
External criterion of trutn. See criterion. Exter- 
nal criticism, denomination, end, epicondyle, good, 
multiplication, etc. See the nouns. External diver- 
sity, the opposite of external agreement. External 
form Of reasoning, the mode in which a given kind 
of reasoning is expressed. External Object, an object 
whose characters are independent of our thoughts ; an ex- 
terior thing. External perception, perception of ob- 
jects as external in space : opposed to internal perception, 
or perception of what is passing in the mind. 
External Perception, or Perception simply, is the faculty 
presentative or intuitive of the phenomena of the Non- 
Ego or matter if there be any intuitive apprehension al- 
lowed of the Non-Ego at all. Internal Perception, or Self- 
consciousness, is the faculty presentative or intuitive of 
the phenomena of the Ego or mind. 
Sir W. Hamilton, Metaphysics, xvii. 
External quantity, in Ionic, logical extension. Exter- 
nal work. See work. External world, the totality of 
external objects ; the world in space and time revealed by 
external perception ; the material or objective world. 
Hosteler external See hosteler. =Syn. See exterior. 
II. n. 1. An outward part; something per- 
taining to the exterior. 
Adam was then no less glorious in his externals; he had 
a beautiful body, as well as an immortal soul. 
Smith, Sermons. 
2. An outward rite or ceremony ; a visible form 
or symbol: as, the externals of religion. 
God in externals could not place content. 
Pope, Essay on Man, iv. 66. 
externalisation, externalise. See externali- 
zation, externalize. 
externalism (eks-ter'nal-izm), n. [< external 
+ -ism.] 1. Same as phenomenalism. 
Some men . . . imagine that in mere physics is wis- 
dom to be found, and that the true magician's wand for 
striking out the most important results is induction. This 
is the very madness of externalism. 
Prof. Blackie, Self Culture, p. 21. 
2. Attention or devotion to externals; especial- 
ly, undue regard to externals, as of religion. 
This work ... is destined, I believe, to hurt only ex- 
ternalisnt and ecclesiastical authority. 
Congregatwnalist, April 29, 1886. 
Externalism gave Catholicism a great advantage on all 
sides. The Century, XXVI. 106. 
externality (eks-ter-nal'i-ti), n. ; pi. externali- 
ties (-tiz). [< external -t- -ity.] 1. The state 
of being external, (a) The state of being located 
outside or on the outside. (&) In metaph.. existence in 
space, or existence of any kind outside of the perceiving 
mind ; the essential characteristics of such existence. 
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Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality 
in the thing which presses or resists. 
Adam Smith, The External Senses. 
Tliti externality of the perceived object to consciousness 
seems to be taken for granted, even by those who would 
be quite ready to tell ns that the " things " which we talk 
of conceiving are but " nominal essences." 
T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, 59. 
(c) Superficiality. 
2. An external ; an outward rite, ceremony, or 
form. 
The subjective standpoint of the mystic made him not 
only independent of, but averse to, the externalities of sa- 
cerdotalism and its rites. 
J. Owen, Evenings with Skeptics, II. 402. 
3. Undue regard to externals ; the sacrifice of 
substance to form. 
While he [Pepys] was still sinning and still undiscovered, 
he seems not to have known a touch of penitence. . . . 
Once found out, however, and he seems to himself to have 
lost all claim to decent usage. It is perhaps the strongest 
instance of his externality. 
R. L. Stevenson, Samuel Pepys. 
externalization (eks-ter'nal-i-za'shon), n. [< 
externalize + -ation.~] The act prprocess of ex- 
ternalizing ; the fact or condition of being ex- 
ternalized, made objective or real in space and 
time, or embodied; embodiment. Also exter- 
nalisation, 
A number of strange heterogeneous narratives might be 
explained and connected by supposing them to represent 
the various stages of externalisation of a telepathic im- 
pact in the percipient's mind. 
Proe. Soc. Psych. Research, II. 163. 
In proportion as the sensorial element in hallucination 
is attenuated and dim, or full and distinct, will the per* 
ception appear internal or external ; and these cases are 
simply the most internal sort, between which and the most 
external sort there exist many degrees of partial exte rnali- 
zatiun. Mind, X. 187. 
externalize (eks-ter'nal-iz), t). t. ; pret. and pp. 
externalized, ppr. externalizing. [< external + 
-ize.~] 1. To embody in an outward form ; give 
shape and form to. 
The idea of a normative analogy of faith discovered with- 
in Scripture was externalized. Encyc. Brit., XI. 746. 
2. To confer the quality of externality or ex- 
ternal reality upon ; invest with actual objec- 
tivity : a word used in modern psychology to 
indicate a mental operation whereby, for in- 
stance, one's name arising in the mind as a sub- 
jective concept is heard as a word spoken from 
without, and therefore as a sense-percept. 
An idea of the agent was most vividly presented to 
the percipient (often even externalizing itself as a hallu- 
cination of the senses), while yet the agent's mind at the 
time was presumably not dwelling on himself or his ap- 
pearance. E. G-nrney, Mind, XII. 230. 
We find in the case of phantasms corresponding to some 
accident or crisis which befalls a living friend, that there 
seems often to be a latent period before the phantasm be- 
comes definite or externalised to the percipient's eye cl- 
ear. Phantasms of the Living, Int., p. Ixv. 
We are obviously as yet only on the threshold of Appa- 
ritions as commonly understood the visible phantoms, 
externalised in space. Proe. Soc. Psych. Research, II. 136. 
Also spelled externalise. 
externally (eks-ter'nal-i), adv. 1. In an exter- 
nal manner or position ; with reference to the 
outside or to externality. 
These injuries having been comforted externally with 
tches of pickled brown paper, and Mr. Pecksniff hav- 
ing been comforted internally with some stiff brandy-and- 
water, the eldest Miss Pecksniff sat down to make the tea. 
Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ii. 
2. Inzool. and anat., away from the median line, 
or the center of a radially symmetrical form ; 
ectad. 
externat (eks-ter'nat), n. [< F. externat, a day- 
school, < externe, a day-scholar : see extern.'] A 
day-school. 
The establishment was both a pensionat and an externat. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, viii. 
externity (eks-ter'ni-ti), . [< extern + -ity.~] 
Outwardness. [Bare.] 
The internity of His ever-living light kindled up an ex- 
ternity of corporeal irradiation. 
H. Brooke, Fool of Quality, II. 249. 
externization (eks-ter-ni-za'shon), n. [< ex- 
ternize + -ation.~] Same as externalization. 
The universe is the externization of the soul. 
Emerson, The Poet. 
externize (eks-ter'nlz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. ex- 
ternized, ppr. externizing. [< extern + ~-i?e.~\ 
Same as externalize. 
Language is merely that product and instrumentality of 
the inner powers which exhibits them most directly and 
most fully in their various modes of action ; by which, so 
far as the case admits, our inner consciousness is exter- 
nized, turned up to the light for ourselves and others to 
see and study. Whitney, Life and Growth of Lang., p. 304. 
externomedial (eks-ter-no-me'di-al), a. Same 
as externomedian. 
extinct 
externomedian (eks-ter-uo-me'di-an), a. [< L. 
externus, outward, + medius, middle, -t- -an.] In 
entom., exterior to the central line. Externo- 
median cell, a cell at the base of the wing of an insect, 
between the subcostal and median veins : used especially 
in describing Ili/menoptera. Externomedian vein or 
nervure, a longitudinal vein of the wingof an insect which 
runs near and parallel to the anterior margin. This vein 
is especially prominent in the tegmina of Orthoptera, lim- 
iting the anterior, marginal, or lower field or area; in Lepi- 
doptera and other insects it is the median vein. 
exterraneous (eks-te-ra'ne-us), a. [< LL. ex- 
terraneus, of another country, < ex, out, + terra, 
country.] Foreign; belonging to or coming 
from abroad. [Rare.] 
exterritorial (eks-ter-i-to'ri-al), a. [< L. ex, 
out, + territorium, territory: see territory, ter- 
ritorial.'] Of or pertaining to exterritoriality ; 
not subject to the jurisdiction of the laws of the 
country in which one resides. Also extraterri- 
torial. 
exterritoriality (eks-ter-i-to-ri-al'i-ti), n. [< 
exterritorial + -ity.~] A legal fiction by which 
the persons and residences of ambassadors and 
sovereigns when abroad are treated as being 
still within their own territory; the privilege 
extended by law and custom to all diplomatic 
representatives of foreign powers and their 
families resident within the territory of a na- 
tion, of enjoying in general the same rights 
and privileges as belong to them in their own 
country. Also extraterritoriality. 
Certain classes of aliens are, by the comity of nations, 
exempted in a greater or less degree from the control of 
the laws in the land of their temporary sojourn. They 
are conceived of as bringing their native laws with them 
out of their native territory ; and the name given to the 
fiction of law for it seems there must be a fiction of law 
to explain a very simple fact is exterritoriality. 
Woolxey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 84. 
exterritorially (eks-ter-i-to'ri-al-i), adv. In an 
exterritorial manner ; with reference to exter- 
ritoriality. Also extraterritorially. 
extersion (eks-ter'shon), n. [< L. as if "exter- 
sio(n-), < extergere, pp. extersus, wipe or rub 
off, < ex, out, + tergere, wipe: see terse.] The 
act of wiping or rubbing out. 
extilt (ek-stil'), r. t. [< L. extillare, exstillare, 
drop or trickle out, < ex, out, + stillare, drop, < 
stilla, a drop: see stilft. Cf. distil, instil.] To 
drop or distil from. Johnson. 
extillationt (ek-sti-la'shon), n. [< cxtil + 
-ation.] The act of distilling from, or falling 
from in drops. 
They seemed made by an exsudation or extUlation of 
putrifying juices out of the rocky earth. 
Derham, Physico-Theology. 
extimulatet (ek-stim'u-lat), r. t. [< L. extimu- 
latus, exstimulatus, pp. of extimulare, exstimu- 
lare(>~Pg. extimular), prick up, goad, stimulate, 
< ex, out, up, + stimulare, prick, goad, stimu- 
late.] To stimulate. 
Choler is ... one excretion whereby nature excludeth 
another ; which, descending . . . into the bowels, extim- 
ulates . . . them unto expulsion. 
Sir T. Brovme, Vulg. Err., iii. 2. 
extimulationt (ek-stim-u-la'shpn), n. [< extim- 
ulate + -ion."] Stimulation. Bacon. 
extinct (eks-tingkf), a. and . [= Sp. estinto 
= Pg. extincto, < L. extinctus, exstinctus, pp. of 
extinguere, exstinguere, put out, destroy, abolish, 
extinguish: see extinguish.] I. a. 1. Extin- 
guished; put out; quenched. 
They are extinct, they are quenched as tow. Isa. xliii. 17. 
Her weapons blunted, and extinct her fires. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 418. 
2. Having ceased ; being at an end ; out of ex- 
istence or out of force ; terminated : as, an ex- 
tinct family or race ; an extinct law. 
My days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 
Job xvii. 1. 
Past away 
Tin 1 music, and extinct the lay. 
Wordsworth, Written on a Blank Leaf of Macpherson's 
[Ossian. 
When specific types disappear without any known suc- 
cessors, under circumstances in which it seems unlikely 
that we should have failed to discover their continuance, 
we may fairly assume that they have become extinct, at 
least locally. Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 232. 
Nor is the fascinating mantilla quite extinct among 
women. Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, p. 22. 
II. t n. Extinction. [Bare.] 
To the uttermost extinct of life. 
Ford, Honour Triumphant. 
extinctt (eks-tingkf), v. t. [< L. extinctus, ex- 
stinctus, pp. of extinguere, exstinguere, quench : 
see extinct, a.] To put out; destroy. 
Give renew'd fire to our extincted spirits, 
And bring all Cyprus comfort '. 
Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 
