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

In the early stages of all the colonies it is obviously inevitable that appointments ab extra to public office must occasionally, and even frequently, be made.

From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding

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 Henry Drummond

Discoursing upon the hypothesis of "a fortuitous concourse of atoms" Dr. Priestley asks, "what reason we have to think that small masses of matter can have power without communication ab extra?"

From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Matthew Turner