extrinsicate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make extrinsic

   To make extrinsic; to separate out or externalize.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Extrinsic

   Extrinsic; external.

   • 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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