ab aeterno

[ahb ahy-ter-noh, ab ee-tur-noh]

adverb

Latin.

1. from the most remote antiquity.

Example Sentences

Especially notable in the smaller works were Ms. Greenleaf and her usual partner, the soprano Molly Quinn, in “Iste Confessor”; and the lone bass, John Taylor Ward, in “Ab Aeterno Ordinata Sum,” a showpiece that took him to the very bottom of his range.

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St. Thomas has stated, as his considered opinion, that the impossibility of creatio ab aeterno cannot be proved.

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Hoc ente supremo posito, omnia lucidissima se praebent intellectui; illo Deo optimo—quem non possumus, perspectis illis altissimis, non adorare—sublato, admittendae sunt essentiae rerum ab aeterno reales sine actuali existentia; atque proinde quid non-individuale est reale in se, quod tamen concipi non potest nisi objective in mente.”98.Cf.

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Therefore we are driven back upon a process ab aeterno with every stage of evolution always simultaneously represented in one part or other of the whole.

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A process ab aeterno is at least as unimaginable as the process of creation ex nihilo; if it be not altogether inconceivable to boot.

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