ab extra
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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
This colony settled in what was subsequently called Phoenicia; and here again our traditions are confirmed ab extra, for Herodotus says: "The Phoenicians anciently dwelt, as they allege, on the borders of the Red Sea."
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances
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
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
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