Extrinsicate

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

To make extrinsic; to separate out or externalize..

Definitions by Sense

1. To make extrinsic; to separate out or externalize.
2. (obsolete) Extrinsic; external.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

It is a solution that, by placing full confidence in Christ's capacity to feel and understand pain, fear and desolation, in a word, all the negative elements that man may experience on earth, allows Hopkins to find hope, consolation, and ultimate salvation, allows this poet-priest to explicate and extrinsicate his own personal and poetic presence, solely in the presence and immanence of Christ:

My lord, know you, there are two sorts of dreams, One sort whereof are only physical, And such are they whereof your Lordship speaks, The other hyper-physical: that is, Dreams sent from heaven, or from the wicked fiends, Which nature doth not form of her own power, But are extrinsicate, by marvel wrought, And such was mine.

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.

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• extrinsicates
• extrinsicating
• extrinsicated
• more extrinsicate
• most extrinsicate

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