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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ab extra

"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

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

But some of his expressions are objectionable, as they seem to assume a material substratum, animated ab extra by an infusion of the Logos.

From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge

The necessity, the governing power ab extra, would be removed.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh

So long as deistic views of the relation of God to man and the world held the field, revelation meant something interjected ab extra into the established order of things.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore

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