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Externally

Externally \Ex*ter"nal*ly\, adv. In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly. [1913 Webster] ||

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externally

adv. 1 on the surface or the outside 2 visibly

WordNet
externally
  1. adv. on or from the outside; "the candidate needs to be externally evaluated" [ant: internally]

  2. with respect to the outside; "outwardly, the figure is smooth" [syn: outwardly]

Usage examples of "externally".

The apses of the aisles were square externally, and apsidal internally.

Also, the thievish herb, when bruised and applied externally to scrofulous tumours, is an excellent remedy.

If bruised, and applied externally, it reddens the skin, and will sometimes even blister it.

The bruised leaves applied externally will serve to soften hard breasts early in lactation, and to resolve the glands in nursing, when they become knotty and painful, with a threatened abscess.

The bruised plant has been applied externally for healing ulcers, burns, whitlows, and for the mitigation of swollen piles.

Externally, Rue is an active irritant to the skin, the bruised leaves blistering the hands, and causing a pustular eruption.

The bruised leaves are useful externally for curing blotches on the face, and for piles.

Externally, the bruised leaves are of excellent service for cleansing and stimulating foul sores and ulcers, being first macerated in a Cabbage leaf with warmth.

There is much clunch stone used in the interior and this is in a good state of preservation, but any that has been used externally has decayed.

There is a small percentage of cases, as before stated, in which this form of treatment is not likely to give a permanent cure, from the fact that the omentum or intestine has become adherent externally, to the sac, or in the scrotum, to the coverings of the testicle.

Nature outside man had taught him that life on all levels takes it course in a perpetual interplay of opposites, manifested externally in an interplay of diastole and systole comparable to the process of breathing.

While externally the body appears to be at rest, the processes of growth and upbuilding probably go on more rapidly when we are asleep than when we are awake.

We were trained in Hegemony schools, tattooed after taking Hegemony accreditation, and policed both internally and externally, but normals still feared us.

Accordingly he seized the pen with great confidence, and a whole magazine of antihysteric medicines were, in different forms, externally and internally applied.

The root may be employed both externally as a poultice, and inwardly as a decoction, when an astringent is needed.