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单词 extraneous
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extraneousadj.

Brit. /ᵻkˈstreɪnɪəs/, /ɛkˈstreɪnɪəs/, U.S. /ɪkˈstreɪniəs/, /ɛkˈstreɪniəs/
Etymology: < Latin extrāneus external ( < extrā outside) + -ous suffix. (Compare strange, < Old French estrange < Latin extrāneus.)
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].
c. Foreign in nature, having nothing in common. Obsolete. rare.
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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adj.1638
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