externals's Usage Examples:

The cleansing of externals and the tithing of garden-produce, He declares, have usurped the place of judgment and the love of God.

The judgment of posterity has not repeated the flattering verdict of his contemporaries; but he remains the model of a great king in all that concerns the externals of kingship.

He took a great interest in all the externals of war.

His failure to do so - in externals - left him isolated in his empire: rayahs and true believers alike distrusted and hated him.

more especially the care of the sick and the arrangement of the externals of divine worship.

Hrozny is right, and if so the curious resemblances of some of the externals of Roman and Hittite religion, and the legendary and other connexions between the Etruscans and Asia Minor, are seen in a new light.

At her door a very ceremonious curtesy, with these words, " Adieu, sir!As to Macedonia, whatever may have been the constitution of the court, it is implied that it offered in its externals a sober plainness in comparison with the vain display and ceremonious frivolities of Antioch and Alexandria (Polyb.

Imitation had necessarily to begin with externals, and Peter at once fell foul of the long beards and Oriental costumes which symbolized the arch-conservatism of old Russia.

As the medieval lyric decayed, more and more attention was given to the externals of poetic composition, the form, the number of syllables, the melody; and it was such externals that attracted the interest of these burgher-poets.

He had resided at Rome as a hostage, and afterwards for his pleasure at Athens, and had brought to his kingdom an admiration for republican institutions and an enthusiasm for Hellenic culture - or, at any rate, for its externals.

As to Macedonia, whatever may have been the constitution of the court, it is implied that it offered in its externals a sober plainness in comparison with the vain display and ceremonious frivolities of Antioch and Alexandria (Polyb.

He dwelt strongly on the importance of men looking away from the externals of the sacrament to the spirit of love and piety.

Synonyms:

position, spatial relation, outside, outer,

Antonyms:

interior, indoor, inner, inside, internal,