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[ Let each note breathe the heart of pa ion, The sad extract ure of extreamest griefe. Nothing did so much to dispel the German Chancellor's apprehensions of a Ru o-French alliance as the refusal of the French Government (in the spring of 1880) to extra dite Hartmann, the Nihilist, who was suspected of having planned the railway plot against the Czar at Moscow (in December, 1879). Lowe, Bismarck, II. 120. 2. To project in perception by a psychological proce (a sensation) to a distance from the body. Thus, when we strike the ground with a cane, we seem to feel the blow at the further end of the cane - that is, extradite the sensation to that point. [Recent.] It would appear therefore that, in the first instance at any rate, a sensation can be projected or extradited , only if it form a part of a space-volume felt all at once or in continuous succe ion. W. James, Mind, XII. 205. extradition (eks-tra-dish'on), n. [F. extra dition = Sp. extradicion , ex , out, + trad i tio (n-), a giving up, traditus , pp. of tradere , give up, give over: see tradition .] 1. Delivery by one state or nation to another, particularly of fugitives from justice. Bismarck had demanded extradition of the a a ins of German soldiers, but his request was refused. Lowe, Bismarck, II. 12. 2. The projection, in the act of perception, of a sensation to a distance from the body. [Recent.] If we shake a locked iron gate, we feel the middle, on which our hands rest, move; but we equally feel the stability of the ends, where the hinges and the lock are; and we seem to feel all three at once. Such examples open up the whole subject of extradition , one of the most difficult problems which can occupy the space-philosopher. W. James, Mind, XII. 205. Extradition treaty, a treaty by which each of two nations becomes bound to give up criminal refugees from the territory of the other, in specified cases.