extrinsic

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EXTRIN'SIC EXTRIN'SICAL, adjective [Latin extrinsecus.] External; outward; not contained in or belonging to a body. Mere matter cannot move without the impulse of an extrinsic agent. It is opposed to intrinsic.
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