ab extra

American  

[ahb ek-strah, ab ek-struh] / ɑb ˈɛk strɑ, æb ˈɛk strə /

adverb

Latin.

1. from the outside.

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Example Sentences

"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

We are conscious that he is a cold-blooded spectator ab extra striving to describe what he has never felt for himself.

From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Birkhead, Edith

Discoursing upon the hypothesis of "a fortuitous concourse of atoms" Dr. Priestley asks, "what reason we have to think that small masses of matter can have power without communication ab extra?"

From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Turner, Matthew

I solicit from the friend who accompanied Mr. Edgerton the thoroughest statement which he can give me of the case, ab extra.

From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.

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

From Lectures on Art by Allston, Washington