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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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"External" Quotes from Famous Books

... money, bought himself good, cheap clothes, and found energy to attend night school where he studied stationary and mechanical engineering. He lived wholly within himself, his mental reactions tinged with morose scorn. He found little comfort either in himself or in the external world, in spite of the fact that he had determined with all his stubborn will to ...

— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine

... of suffering from tyranny; they were in no danger of losing the liberty which they so jealously guarded. The perils that threatened them were lawlessness, lack of order, and lack of capacity to concentrate their efforts in time of danger from within or from an external enemy; and against these perils they made no ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt

... metaphysicians may as well make a record of the decision; for Watts McHurdie, Jacob Dolan, Philemon Ward, Martin Culpepper, and sometimes Oscar Fernald, know just exactly as much about it as the ablest logician in the world. It is, however, regrettable that after deciding that the external world is but a divine reaction upon the individual consciousness, the parliament was unable to reach any sort of a decision as to whose consciousness received the picture. Mr. Dolan maintained vigorously that his consciousness was the one actually affected, ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

... expecting to have met with a hackney rattler, but not one was to be found upon the stand, when Bob espied the broad tilt of a jarvey perched upon his shop-board, and impelling along, with no little labour of the whip, a pair of anatomies, whose external ...

— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... reason for the expense being not so much necessity, as a desire to be rather better dressed when she accompanied Waymark on those little country excursions which had reestablished themselves of late. By no means the smallest part of Ida's heroism was that involved in this matter of external appearance. A beautiful woman can never be indifferent to the way in which her beauty is arrayed. That Waymark was not indifferent to such things she knew well, and often she suffered from the thought that one strong means of attraction ...

— The Unclassed • George Gissing

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