ab extra

[ ahb ek-strah; English ab ek-struh ]

/ ɑb ˈɛk strɑ; English æb ˈɛk strə /

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adverb Latin.

from the outside.

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How to use ab extra in a sentence

In this letter Blackwood told me the first ab extra opinion of the book, which happened to be precisely what I most desired.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3)|George Eliot
There must be an agency ab extra to interpose, else we perish.
Bible Emblems|Edward E. Seelye
In no part has any ridicule ab extra, been employed:—ridicule, by allusion made to another object, and that an irrelevant one.
Not Paul, But Jesus|Jeremy Bentham
He clothes reason with authority to determine what is inspiration, by saying that there can be no revelation "ab extra."
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology|John F. Hurst

The source of the sublime--as all along implied--is essentially ab extra.
Lectures on Art|Washington Allston