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adjective

External adj.

Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body. "Of all external things,... She (Fancy) forms imaginations, aery shapes."

Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind.

Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral. "Her virtues graced with external gifts."

Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial. "The external circumstances are greatly different."

Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.

(Anat.) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.

External angles. (Geom.) See under Angle.

noun

External n. Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; usually in the plural. "Adam was then no less glorious in his externals" "God in externals could not place content."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"External" Quotes from Famous Books

... at the hotel where the omnibus stopped, and then went to search out the castle. It appears to have been once extensive, but the remains of it are now very few, except a part of the external wall. Whatever other portion may still exist, has been built into a modern castellated mansion, which has risen within the wide circuit of the fortress,—a handsome and spacious edifice of red freestone, ...

— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... blood examination for the establishment of the existence of anaemia. For instance, many cases here recorded had full normal or even supra-normal corpuscle-count, with a good percentage of haemoglobin. Yet they presented every external sign of poverty of blood: pallor of skin and, more important still, of mucous membranes, cold extremities, anorexia, indigestion, dyspnoea on trifling exertion. In such cases we must suppose either that the total volume of the blood ...

— Fat and Blood - An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria • S. Weir Mitchell

... interruption would come before my fight had been determined one way or the other. This terror was enough to weaken me. I felt it many times and on each occasion drew so near the bare wall that I could throw my weight against it and lose all external thoughts by staring at the blank surface, with all but one ...

— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child

... genius—the human brain, conceived the idea of creating that wool, and wood, and ore into a higher state of usefulness, and at this juncture was compelled to acknowledge the infinite necessity of a co-worker; hence, the brain employs the hand as an external agent to put into force the impressions which it—the brain—receives from the phenomena ...

— A Fleece of Gold - Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece • Charles Stewart Given

... considered individually, these people are sometimes very clever, generally educated—the regulation German university culture; but of politics, beyond the interests of their own church tower, they know as little as we knew as students, and even less; as far as external politics go, they are also, taken separately, like children. In all other questions they become childish as soon as they stand together in corpore. In the ...

— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam

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