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extrinsicate en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

From extrinsic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. To make extrinsic; to separate out or externalize.
   • 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. 1926, Aldous Huxley, “Two Pictures of Gandhi”, in The Bookman: A Literary Journal, volume 63, page 565:
   • 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. 1862, Brownson's quarterly review, page 182:
   • 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. 1648, conte Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato, An History of the Late Warres and Other State Affaires of the Best Part of Christendom:
   • 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: 1985, Luisa Conti Camaiora, Gray, Keats, Hopkins: poetry and the poetic presence, page 149:

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extrinsicate en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From extrinsic + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), with participial meaning.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Extrinsic; external.
   • 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. 1600, anonymous author, The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll:
   • 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. 1868, George Swinnock, Works - Volume 5, page 319:

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