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
A people will no more quit their alphabet than they will quit their language; they will no more consent to modify the one ab extra than the other.
From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe
We are conscious that he is a cold-blooded spectator ab extra striving to describe what he has never felt for himself.
From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Birkhead, Edith
I do not mean by that, abuse ab extra.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various
This Life is not something added ab extra to the natural man; it is the normal and appropriate development of the natural man.
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry
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