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

Its quality of being a brute fact ab extra says nothing whatever as to its inwardness.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William

I do not mean by that, abuse ab extra.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various

To the former I complained of persecution ab extra, which might be stopped by police intervention, of the latter I demanded explanations for personal vexations and insults.

From Letters of a Lunatic A Brief Exposition of My University Life, During the Years 1853-54 by Adler, George J.