v. Also 9 externalise. [f. EXTERNAL + -IZE.] trans. To make external; to embody in outward form; to give or attribute external existence to; to treat as consisting in externals.
1852. Morell, trans. Tennemann’s Hist. Phil., 29. His fancy externalizing the divinations of his reason.
1875. Symonds, Renaiss. Italy, I. i. 29–30. This high political abstraction, latent in Christianity … was externalised in the French Revolution.
1877. E. Caird, Philos. Kant, II. x. 427. The universe is the process whereby spirit externalises itself.
1884. Chicago Advance, 14 Feb. The more ancient mistake has been to externalize religion too much.
Hence Externalized ppl. a. Externalizing vbl. sb., the action of the vb. EXTERNALIZE.
1865. Masson, Rec. Brit. Philos., 98. The externalizing of one’s own thoughts.
1876. Fairbairn, in Contemp. Rev., June, 135. Creation is the evolution of deity, man externalized God.
1886. Gurney, Phantasms of Living, I. 186. Divides the cases [of telepathy] into two great families—those (A) where the impression is sensory or externalised, and those (B) where it is not sensory or externalised.
