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Extrinsic

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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