ab extra

How to use ab extra in a sentence

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

  George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) | George Eliot

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

  Bible Emblems | Edward E. Seelye

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

  Not Paul, But Jesus | Jeremy Bentham

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

  History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology | John F. Hurst

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

  Lectures on Art | Washington Allston