OUT'WARD, adjective [Latin versus.] 1. External; exterior; forming the superficial part; as the outward coat of an onion; an outward garment. 2. External; visible; opposed to inward; as outward hate. 3. Extrinsic; adventitious. And outward honor for an inward toil. 4. Foreign; not intestine; as an outward war. [Not now used. We now say, external or foreign war.] 5. Tending to the exterior part. The fire will force its outward way. 6. In Scripture, civil; public; as opposed to religious. 1 Chronicles 24:1. 7. In theology, carnal; fleshly; corporeal; not spiritual; as the outward man. OUT'WARD, noun External form.
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