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Apophenia ([personal profile] jodawi) wrote2005-09-20 12:52 am
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extrinsic, a.

 SECOND EDITION 1989  

({ope}k{sm}str{shti}ns{shti}k)  Forms: 6 extrynsyke, 7 extrinsique, 7-8 extrinsick(e, 7- extrinsic. [ad. F. extrinsèque, ad. late L. extrinsec-us, adj. f. L. extrinsecus adv. ‘outwardly’, f. exter outside + -in suffix of locality + secus prep. ‘beside’, used as a suffix = Eng. -side, f. root of sequ-{imac} to follow; cf. altrinsecus, intrinsecus, utrinsecus. The ending has been assimilated to the suffix -IC.] 

    Outward; opposed to intrinsic.