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

As long as there was any thing ab extra to conquer, the state advanced: when nothing remained but what was Roman, then, as a matter of course, civil war began.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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 Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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

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

From Delia Blanchflower by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.