Crossword clues for extern
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extern \Ex*tern"\, a. [Cf. F. externe. See External.]
External; outward; not inherent. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Extern \Ex*tern"\, n. [Cf. F. externe.]
A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.
Outward form or part; exterior. [R.]
same as externe.
Externe \Ex`terne"\, Extern \Ex*tern"\([e^]ks`t[e^]rn"), n. [F. Cf. Extern.] a person affiliated with an institution who does not reside there; especially, (Med.) a doctor or medical student who is in attendance upon, or is assisting at, a hospital, but who does not reside in it.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"outsider," c.1600, from Middle French externe "outer, outward;" as a noun, "a day-scholar," from Latin externus "outside," also used as a noun (see external). As an adjective in English from 1530s.
Wiktionary
a. (context obsolete rare English) external; outward; not inherent. n. 1 A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate. 2 Outward form or part; exterior.
WordNet
n. a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there [syn: medical extern]
Usage examples of "extern".
Intellectual-Principle which actually is the primals and is always self-present and is in its nature an Act, never by any want forced to seek, never acquiring or traversing the remote--for all such experience belongs to soul--but always self-gathered, the very Being of the collective total, not an extern creating things by the act of knowing them.
There were vendors who shouted the wares they displayed in trays hung from their necks, externs who gabbled in rude tongues, and beggars who showed their sores, feigned to play flageolets and ophicleides, and pinched their children to make them weep.
I am projected from thee, One that out of thy brain and heart thou causest to be - Extern to thee nothing.
There were vendors who shouted the wares they displayed in trays hung from their necks, externs who gabbled in rude tongues, and beggars who showed their sores, feigned to play flageolets and ophicleides, and pinched their children to make them weep.