ab extra
Americanadverb
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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
Milton is the deity of prescience; he stands ab extra, and drives a fiery chariot and four, making the horses feel the iron curb which holds them in.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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 Horace B. Day
He clothes reason with authority to determine what is inspiration, by saying that there can be no revelation "ab extra."
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
Those who are so fortunate as to occupy the philosophical position of spectators ab extra are very few in any generation.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
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