ab extra

[ ahb ek-strah; English ab ek-struh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

, Latin.

In this letter Blackwood told me the first ab extra opinion of the book, which happened to be precisely what I most desired.

There must be an agency ab extra to interpose, else we perish.

In no part has any ridicule ab extra, been employed:—ridicule, by allusion made to another object, and that an irrelevant one.

He clothes reason with authority to determine what is inspiration, by saying that there can be no revelation "ab extra."

The source of the sublime--as all along implied--is essentially ab extra.

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