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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

extraneus

, from

extra

. See

Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign;

as, to separate gold from

extraneous

matter

–

Ex-tra′ne-ous-ly

adv.

Adj.

[L. extraneus.] Foreign; not belonging to a thing; existing without; not intrinsic; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.

Relation is not contained in the real existence of things, but is extraneous and superinduced.

Extraneous fossils, organic remains; exuviae of organized beings, imbedded in the strata of the earth.