a. rare. [f. EXTRO- pref. + L. it- ppl. stem of īre to go + -IVE; cf. introitive.] Directed to external objects.
1834. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1836), II. 111. Women … feel less proportionate abhorrence of moral evil in and for itself, and more of its outward consequences … their natures being almost wholly extroitive.
