单词 | extraneous |
释义 | extraneousadj. 1. a. Of external origin; introduced or added from without; foreign to the object in which it is contained, or to which it is attached. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > coming or operating from outside or extraneous strangec1386 alienate1533 extern1533 unnative1568 extrinsical1578 implanted1595 adventitious1603 intervenient1605 acquired1609 extrinsic1613 foreign1621 extraneous1638 adnate1642 acquisititiousa1652 external1651 adventual1656 forinsecal1658 adventine1755 extranate1856 1638 A. Read Treat. 1st Pt. Chirurg. ix. 67 Such medicaments ought not onely to consume the extraneous humidity, but the natural also. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxv. 152 Relation..though it be not contained in the real existence of Things, but something extraneous, and superinduced. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 15 Fossil, or, as they are called, extraneous shells. 1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. xiv. 202 Any extraneous body..may..be introduced into the bladder. 1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 168 Many objects are made venerable by extraneous circumstances. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 187 I sought in vain..for a single fragment of any extraneous rock. 1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 159 A slight melodic framework, almost hidden beneath a load of extraneous graces. b. Of an action, etc.: Proceeding from without. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > coming or operating from outside or extraneous > of an action extraneous1786 1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1842) II. 184 Hastings did for a long time..attribute the weakness of his government to an extraneous interference. 1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 26 The..application of the naked ear..gives rise to extraneous sounds. 1862 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. (new ed.) ii. 40 The Low-German dialects were..exposed to extraneous disturbing forces. 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 120 Excluding extraneous light. c. Brought from abroad, ‘exotic’.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > strange > and foreign WelsheOE exotical1608 exotic1629 extraneousc1750 Arabian-night1808 c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies xviii. 58 Rob'd in the Gallic loom's extraneous twine. 2. a. External to, not comprised in or forming part of, the object under consideration. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] extrinsical1593 extraneal1618 adscititious1620 extrinsic1622 ascititious1628 extraneous1662 1662 Bates in S. Pepys Diary 17 Aug. (1970) III. 167 It is not my manner to speak anything in the pulpit that is extraneous to my text and business. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxxi. 177 When ever the Mind refers any of its Ideas to any thing extraneous to them, they are then capable to be called true or false. 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. iii. ii. 302 Of points clearly extraneous to the religion, nothing need be said. 1865 A. Maffei Brigand Life II. 121 The question of brigandage being extraneous to all political controversies. b. Of a person: Not belonging to a specified community, country, or family. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective] > that is a stranger or outsider uncouthc893 outcomeeOE fremdc950 althedyOE foreigna1325 aliena1382 barbarous1542 barbarianc1550 stranger1593 extraneous1656 outside1826 barbaric1849 extern1866 offcomed1879 1656 R. Vines Treat. Lords-supper (1677) 212 Heathens and Infidels are excluded from this Table, because they are extraneous and without. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 50 If at any time there were any extraneous,..persons amongst them, the Men..signifi'd their meaning to one another by symbols. 1842 T. Arnold Lect. Mod. Hist. iii. 187 It has..to feed one or more extraneous persons besides. a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1872) 3rd Ser. ii. 20 Nearly all who are of the world are extraneous to it [the church]. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > non-relation > [adjective] frenne1556 unlinked1587 untouching1602 positive1609 unrespectless1614 unrelating1655 inconnexive1660 unaccessory1664 unconcerned1668 extraneous1671 unrelative1700 unkindred1701 unrelated1701 unconnected1745 irrelate1845 unrelational1863 unakin1864 inconsequent1869 relationless1878 irrelated1886 disrelated1893 1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 74 Mercury one thing, and Sulpher another, as extraneous bodies one to another. d. Music. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Extraneous, an epithet applied to those sharps and flats, and those chords and modulations, which, forsaking the natural course of the diatonic intervals, digress into abstruse and chromatic evolutions of melody and harmony. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 296/2 Modulation may be divided into Simple, Chromatic (or extraneous), and Enharmonic. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 162/1 Extraneous modulation, a modulation to an extreme or unrelated key. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 295/1 When a remote key is reached by relative keys, the modulation is by some said to be extraneous. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 590/1 Beethoven.., on occasion, leapt, with little notice to the listener, into unrelated keys (Extraneous Modulation). Derivatives exˈtraneously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adverb] > as being outside something extraneously1755 exteriorly1877 1755 Bp. E. Law Consid. State World iii. 237 (note) By their being extraneously overruled. exˈtraneousness n. the quality or state of being extraneous. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun] outwardness1580 externality1673 outness1694 extraneity1849 extrinsicality1852 extraneousness1881 extrinsicism1934 1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. (Mark xvi. 9–20) App. 44 Without giving any sign of extraneousness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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