adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.]
1. On the outside or surface; as regards the outside; superficially.
1595. Shaks., John, IV. ii. 257. My forme, Which howsoeuer rude exteriorly, Is yet the couer of a fayrer minde.
1669. Woodhead, St. Teresa, II. xxvi. 162. It scorched her exteriorly.
1707. Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 49. New Parts uniting themselves exteriourly to the former.
1791. Macie, in Phil. Trans., LXXXI. 372. It was still white, both exteriorly and interiorly.
1879. Glasgow Herald, 8 Oct., 5/3. Viewed as a whole, whether exteriorly or interiorly the Picton Reading-Room is a remarkably fine architectural production.
2. With outward act; as regards externals.
1550. Thomas, Ital. Gram., Cofto, is the worshippe or honour that is exteriourly vsed towardes God.
1626. T. H[awkins], trans. Caussin’s Holy Crt., 269. Exteriourly applying your selfe to ordinary seruices.
1685. trans. Bossuet’s Doctr. Cath. Ch., Advt. 15. The Holy Ghost … establishes Pastors and Teachers to act exteriourly.
1751. Chesterf., Lett., III. ccliv. 167. Endeavour to please every body, I mean exteriorly.
1872. Borrow, Gypsies of Spain (ed. 2), 101. They exteriorly accommodate themselves to the religion of the country.
3. In an exterior position or direction; as being outside something.
1877. E. Caird, Philos. Kant, II. xvii. 609. We have again to regard the cause, not as exteriorly related to the effect, but as identical with it.
1880. C. & F. Darwin, Movem. Pl., 513. Producing only 3 or 4 perfect flowers, which are situated exteriorly.
1882. Q. Rev., Jan., 190. Each leaf is drawn in exteriorly to the first one.
