extrinsical

comparative more extrinsical · superlative most extrinsical

1. rareExtrinsic.

   Neither is the atom by any extrinsical impulse diverted from its natural course.

   1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

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   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.

   1644, Kenelm Digby, The Nature of Bodies

   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.

   1689, John Locke, Of Ideas in general, and their Original, Book II , Chapter I.

plural extrinsicals

1. obsoleteSomething that is extrinsic.