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extrinsical (comparative more extrinsical, superlative most extrinsical)

1. (rare) Extrinsic.
   • 1644, Kenelm Digby, The Nature of Bodies:

     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.

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

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

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

     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.