To make external or to separate from the essential nature; to treat as external or incidental.
A back-formation from 'extrinsical,' creating a verb by removing the '-al' suffix, following the pattern of similar verb creations in English.
This is a rare verb that most English speakers have never heard—it's one of those fascinating 'potential words' that exists in the language's grammar but barely appears in actual use.
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