Meanings
- not comparableobsoleterareanatomyPertaining to or near the outside of the body.
The heat of the Stomack is more intense, and vigorous to concoct what it requires or receives, then it will be when the Sun with his nearer neighbourhood calls forth that now self-centered heat to the extimous and cutaneous parts of the body.
1661, Matthew Stevenson, The Twelve Moneths1 more example
Hence it is, that whatever ſhe intensively fixes her Eyes upon, or conceives and impreſſes in her Mind, the Infant repreſents the ſame in its extimous parts: And particularly whatever Object ſhe directs her Eyes or Thoughts upon, in the Interval between the Embrace and the Charm, its Effigies is afterwards manifeſt in the Child.
1724, John Maubray, chapter 8, in The Female Physician, page 63
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