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

For he could see himself, and laugh at himself, ab extra, better than most men.

From Delia Blanchflower by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Ecclesiastical figures abound in his pages, jolly friars, holy hermits, lordly prelates, grim inquisitors, abbots, priors, and priests of all descriptions, but all somewhat conventional and viewed ab extra.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

An impulse ab extra seems in a vast number of instances to be necessary, to promote the good of both nations and individuals.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

God was self-existent, or he was self-created, or he was created ab extra.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman