Externally
[ɪk'stɝnli]
Definition
(adv.) on or from the outside; 'the candidate needs to be externally evaluated'.
Typist: Nicholas--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
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Examples
- Externally they were weak and divided. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All there was sunny and quiet externally, and shady and quiet internally. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Observation and recognition, belief and assent, then become names for lazy acquiescence in what is externally presented. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If I am reserved to wear a wig, I am at least prepared, externally,' in allusion to his baldness, 'for that distinction. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Being shaped internally and externally like an apothecary's mortar, they were called mortars or bombards. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She was in truth grateful for the refuge offered her: Mrs. Peniston's opulent interior was at least not externally dingy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Externally it presents the appearance of some curious, uncouth, cast iron box, which, to the uninitiated, piques the curiosity, and when opened adds no explanation of its real character. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Preparations of this nature when used externally should be applied plentifully and vigorously. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The laboratory is a discovery of the condition under which labor may become intellectually fruitful and not merely externally productive. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- From my point of view, he was the wrong twin all the time, and only externally like the Wemmick of Walworth. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The packet looked so neat externally her curiosity was excited to see its contents. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She took no notice of him, externally. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This fine copper cord is covered carefully with gutta percha; it is then coated with tarred hemp, and is protected externally by an iron wire rope, composed of numerous strands of fine wire. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In freezing the water externally on these plates all impurities and air bubbles are repelled and excluded, and the ice rendered clear and transparent. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Dedlock town house changes not externally, and hours pass before its exalted dullness is disturbed within. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The showman turns this cabinet around and shows that there is nothing abnormal about it externally. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Each contributes to the others only externally and accidentally. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The tail has a terminal dark bar, with the outer feathers externally edged at the base with white. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The result will be a confusion in which a few will appropriate to themselves the results of the blind and externally directed activities of others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Their remedies all possess more or less remedial value, but without brisk and patient rubbing they would do as little good when applied externally as so much cold water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The vice of externally imposed ends has deep roots. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Then the problem is to bring our activities to bear upon the realization of these externally supplied ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I wish, Jane, I were a trifle better adapted to match with her externally. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His mirrorin g and externally self-polished soul no longe r knows how to affirm, no longer how to deny; he does not command; neither does he destroy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It operates, that is to say, through intelligence, and not through conformity to orders externally imposed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Looked at externally it is a curious focusing of attention. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An end established externally to the process of action is always rigid. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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