extern

[ ek-sturn; ik-sturn ]

noun

1. a person connected with an institution but not residing in it, as a doctor or medical student at a hospital.
2. a nun of a strictly enclosed order, as the Carmelites, who resides inside the convent but outside its enclosure and who chiefly goes on outside errands.

adjective

1. Archaic. external; outer.

extern

/ ɪkˈstɜːn; ˈɛkstɜːn /

noun

1. a person, such as a physician at a hospital, who has an official connection with an institution but does not reside in it

Word History and Origins

Origin of extern¹

1525–35; < Latin externus, derivative of exter, exterus. See exterior

Word History and Origins

Origin of extern¹

C16: from Latin externus external

Example Sentences

That a professed nun should be expected to feel personal and unspiritual interest in an extern!

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Carin extern vald carinat cum sulco laterali ad utrumque latus.

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I own this is a damper to sanguine and florid temperaments, who abound in these practical demonstrations and 'compliments extern.'

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A further proof perhaps of Puck's rural and extern character is the following rather trifling circumstance.

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Ratio: Intentio adorandi objectum materiale, non est de essenti extern adorationis, ut patet in deosculatione religios.

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