ab extra
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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"It seems to me," he said, "that there is a guiding and directing principle ab extra which interacts with the material of the physical universe but is not of it."
From Time Magazine Archive
Where the Syllogism comes in as a useful form is when certain propositions are delivered to you ab extra as containing a certain conclusion; and the connexion is not apparent.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
This colony settled in what was subsequently called Phoenicia; and here again our traditions are confirmed ab extra, for Herodotus says: "The Phoenicians anciently dwelt, as they allege, on the borders of the Red Sea."
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
The first question, then, for the historian should be, What accounts does this nation give of its early history? the second, What account of this nation's early history can be obtained ab extra?
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
A people will no more quit their alphabet than they will quit their language; they will no more consent to modify the one ab extra than the other.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
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