KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

OUT'WARD, adjective [Latin versus.]

1. External; exterior; forming the superficial part; as the outward coat of an onion; an outward garment.

2. External; visible; opposed to inward; as outward hate.

3. Extrinsic; adventitious.

And outward honor for an inward toil.

4. Foreign; not intestine; as an outward war. [Not now used. We now say, external or foreign war.]

5. Tending to the exterior part.

The fire will force its outward way.

6. In Scripture, civil; public; as opposed to religious. 1 Chronicles 24:1.

7. In theology, carnal; fleshly; corporeal; not spiritual; as the outward man.

OUT'WARD, noun External form.

OUTWARD-BOUND', adjective Proceeding from a port or country.

OUT'WARDLY, adverb

1. Externally; opposed to inwardly; as outwardly content, but inwardly uneasy.

2. In appearance; not sincerely. Many may inwardly reverence the goodness which they outwardly seem to despise.

OUT'WARDS, adverb

1. To the outer parts; tending or directed towards the exterior.

The light falling on them [black bodies] is not reflected outwards

2. From a port or country; as a ship bound outwards