ab extra
Americanadverb
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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
It was a strange position for a young woman to be in—that of watcher over the marriage relations of two persons, to neither of whom she could be a friend otherwise than ab extra.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald
It is this character of life, I say, that so easily leads us to look upon it as something ab extra, or super-added to matter, and not an evolution from it.
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
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 Robert Chambers
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
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