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intrinsical, a. (n.) Now rare.|ɪnˈtrɪnsɪkəl|
Forms: 6 intryncicall, 6–8 intrinsecal(l, (-icall), 7–9 -ical.
[f. med.L. intrinsec-us (see prec.) + -al1. The etymological -ecal was usual till c 1710.]
†1. = prec. 1. Obs.
1571Digges Pantom. iv. v. V iij a, The semidimetient of the intrinsicall circle. 1580G. Harvey 3 proper Lett. 14 That small skill I have in extrinsecall and intrinsecall physiognomie. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 83 For their intrinsecal operation, they used little hollow Pipes. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 16/2 The Intrinsical..are all such Lines or Circles, as ly inward.
†2. = prec. 2. Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 172 b, After this apparant concord, and intrinsecall discord. 1631R. S. tr. Drexelius' Nicetas ii. 385 Those that are cast into outward darknes shal neuer be illuminated with any intrinsecal light. 1640Bp. Hall Chr. Moder. (ed. Ward) 24/2 Besides that intrinsical mischief, which it works upon a man's own heart. 1654–66Ld. Orrery Parthen. (1676) 545 His external as well as intrinsecal sufferings.
†b. = prec. 2 b. Obs.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 99 How intrinsecall soeuer they two were together. 1602T. Fitzherbert Apol. 40 b, Without the consent or knowledg of any of his superiours, yea or of any intrinsecal frend of theirs. a1639Wotton Life Dk. Buckhm. in Reliq. (1651) 77 He falls into intrinsecall society with Sir John Greham. Ibid., Char. Grand Duke Tuscany 363 He had a close and Intrinsecall Favourite. 1879tr. Guizot's Cromwell iii. 149 There may be a more intrinsical and mutual interest of each in other..for the good of both.
3. = prec. 3.
intrinsical mode, with the Scotist school of mediæval philosophers, an attribute (such as existence) which, while predicated of a subject in itself, and not merely in relation to something else, and having no independent character of its own, yet neither formed part of, nor followed from, nor in any way affected, the definition of its subject. (By later logicians used in a more general sense: cf. quot. 1725.)
1550Bale Image Both Ch. ii. Pref. 2 b, Vnsauerye sophysmes, problemes..subtiltees, seconde intencyons, intrinsecall moodes. 1627Bp. Hall Best Bargaine Wks. 515 There is an intrinsecall or formall truth in things truly existing. a1661Fuller Worthies, Wiltshire iii. (1662) 150 Though the same in noise and number, not the same in intrinsecal valuation. 1691Ray Creation i. (1692) 163 That Learning..hath in it this intrinsical Imperfection. 1725Watts Logic i. ii. §4 The third division of modes shews us, they are either intrinsical or extrinsical. Intrinsical modes are conceived to be in the subject or substance, as when we say, a globe is round, or swift, rolling, or at rest; or when we say a man is tall or learned, these are intrinsic modes. 1865Reader 4 Feb. 128/1 The position which Austria has taken in the Peninsula has neither augmented nor consolidated her intrinsical power.
b. Const. to, unto.
1638Wilkins New World xiv. (1707) 117 The heaviness of a Body..is not any absolute Quality intrinsical unto it. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. i. §24 Impressions that are made on our Senses by outward Objects that are extrinsecal to the Mind; and its own Operations, proceeding from Powers intrinsical and proper to itself.
c. With a descriptive noun: That is such intrinsically, or by its very nature.
1821Byron in Moore Life (1866) 537 All men are intrinsical rascals and I am only sorry that not being a dog I can't bite them.
†B. n. (pl.) Inward qualities, feelings, etc.; internal or essential character. Obs.
c1645Howell Lett. iv. xi. (1650) I. 449 This history will display the very intrinsicals of the Castilian, who goes for the prime Spaniard. Ibid. xxxvi. 472 There is none knows my intrinsecals better then you. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 554 The external difference seems easy for vulgar observation, the intrinsecals were intricate.
Hence intrinsiˈcality = intrinsicalness.
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