Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OUT'WARD, a. [Sax. utweard or uteweard; ut, out, and weard, L. 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. An outward honor for an inward toil. Shak.
4. Foreign; not intestine; as, an outward war. [Not now used.] We now say, external or foreign war. Hayward.
5. Tending to the exterior part. The fire will force its outward way. Dryden.
6. In Scripture, civil; public; as opposed to religious. 1 Chron. xxvi.
7. In theology, carnal; fleshly; corporeal; not spiritual; as, the outward man.