Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an extrinsic manner; from without; externally.

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  • adverb In an extrinsic manner

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Examples

  • The local disposition itself is not intrinsically a pole, or ten feet long, but it is so extrinsically, that is, by thought.

    Robert Desgabets Easton, Patricia 2006

  • Similarly, thoughts themselves are not intrinsically extended or subject to movement, but they are so extrinsically, that is, as an effect of the operations of the sensory organs of the body.

    Robert Desgabets Easton, Patricia 2006

  • My argument will be that modern liberal cultures are in a bind insofar as they shifted the basic framework for understanding authority from a context in which wisdom and virtue provided the norms for legitimate authority to a context in which dominative power became normative and legitimacy was defined only extrinsically.

    Theology 2009

  • My argument will be that modern liberal cultures are in a bind insofar as they shifted the basic framework for understanding authority from a context in which wisdom and virtue provided the norms for legitimate authority to a context in which dominative power became normative and legitimacy was defined only extrinsically.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog 2009

  • My argument will be that modern liberal cultures are in a bind insofar as they shifted the basic framework for understanding authority from a context in which wisdom and virtue provided the norms for legitimate authority to a context in which dominative power became normative and legitimacy was defined only extrinsically.

    Dissent and Heresy 2009

  • My argument will be that modern liberal cultures are in a bind insofar as they shifted the basic framework for understanding authority from a context in which wisdom and virtue provided the norms for legitimate authority to a context in which dominative power became normative and legitimacy was defined only extrinsically.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • My argument will be that modern liberal cultures are in a bind insofar as they shifted the basic framework for understanding authority from a context in which wisdom and virtue provided the norms for legitimate authority to a context in which dominative power became normative and legitimacy was defined only extrinsically.

    The Papacy 2009

  • My argument will be that modern liberal cultures are in a bind insofar as they shifted the basic framework for understanding authority from a context in which wisdom and virtue provided the norms for legitimate authority to a context in which dominative power became normative and legitimacy was defined only extrinsically.

    Scripture 2009

  • My argument will be that modern liberal cultures are in a bind insofar as they shifted the basic framework for understanding authority from a context in which wisdom and virtue provided the norms for legitimate authority to a context in which dominative power became normative and legitimacy was defined only extrinsically.

    Fr. Robert Barron on Protestantism, authority, and Cardinal Newman 2009

  • My argument will be that modern liberal cultures are in a bind insofar as they shifted the basic framework for understanding authority from a context in which wisdom and virtue provided the norms for legitimate authority to a context in which dominative power became normative and legitimacy was defined only extrinsically.

    Fr. Robert Barron on Protestantism, authority, and Cardinal Newman 2009

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