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Definition of Exteriorise

1. Verb. Make external or objective, or give reality to. "Language externalizes our thoughts"

Definition of Exteriorise

1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]

Medical Definition of Exteriorise

1. 1. To direct a patient's interests, thoughts, or feelings into a channel leading outside the self, to some definite aim or object. 2. To expose an organ temporarily for observation, or permanently for purposes of physiologic experiment, e.g., fixation of a segment of bowel with blood supply intact to the outer aspect of the abdominal wall. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exteriorise

Literary usage of Exteriorise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Meta-Christianity: Spiritism Established. Religion Re-etablished. Science by H. Croft Hiller (1903)
"To the extent that " non-official" mediums exteriorise resemblances to ... A nation may be compared to the sitters at a stance, who exteriorise their own ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"Stereotypy is motor representation deprived of all adaptation, representation which tends to fix itself indefinitely and to exteriorise itself fatally. ..."

3. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"302) that the art impulse is an outcome of the tendency of every feeling-state to exteriorise itself, ..."

4. Manual of Political Ethics by Francis Lieber (1838)
"Was the first idea of Shaks- peare to delight his fellow men, or was it the yearning of his august genius to act, to manifest—to exteriorise itself, ..."

5. The Miscellaneous Writings of Francis Lieber by Francis Lieber (1881)
"... alike to all departments and organs, and those that have the power of utterance, or the power of any other manifestation, exteriorise it accordingly. ..."

6. Mechanisms of Character Formation: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis by William Alanson White (1916)
"The chair again plays no particular part in our interest if we do not give our interest to the chair, project our interest upon it, exteriorise ourselves to ..."

7. The Miscellaneous Writings of Francis Lieber by Francis Lieber (1880)
"... alike to all departments and organs, and those that have the power of utterance, or the power of any other manifestation, exteriorise it accordingly. ..."

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