Extrinsicate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Extrinsicate is a verb meaning To make extrinsic; to separate out or externalize.
Meaning
To make extrinsic; to separate out or externalize.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Extrinsic; external.
Example Sentences
The qualities which make a man a saint—faith, an indomitable will, a passion for self-sacrifice—are not those that extrinsicate themselves in striking bodily stigmata.
But those we most properly call sins of omission, which are extrinsicate from sins of commission, as not praying, not reading the word, not believing, not feeding the hungry, &c.
Duke Savell notwithstanding, upon these great emergencyes, seemed, though with small hopes of any good effects, willing to extrinsicate his desire in a business which so much conceirned his Prince.
God was free to create or not create, that is, to extrinsicate the Word or not, as he chose, and, having resolved to extrinsicate the Word, he was still free to give it the highest possible extrinsication or not, as it pleased himself.
Word Forms
- extrinsicates
- extrinsicating
- extrinsicated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include externalize, extricate, part, extrapalate, excerp, isolate.
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