单词 | ab extra |
释义 | ab extraadv. From without, from the outside. Cf. ab intra adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [phrase] > from without withouta1400 ab extra1610 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. xvi. 324 Wee are ouer-borne with false opinions: and our selues rather worke our affects then receiue them ab extra. a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) i. xi. 115 The divine understanding never receives the least tincture from an object, no species ab extra, but views all things in the pure Crystal of his own essence. 1732 S. Strutt Philos. Enq. Physical Spring of Human Actions 50 It follows that the Action is equally unavoidable and necessary, whether the Cause be ab intra or ab extra. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 180 As to muscular motion,..it appears very plainly to proceed from a living force, impressed ab extra. 1805 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 2444 The difference therefore between Fabrication and Generation becomes clearly indicable/the Form of the latter is ab intra, evolved, the other ab extra, impressed. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. ix. 101 It was a great relief to her to have Mr. Gibson to decide for her... Such decisions ab extra, are sometimes a wonderful relief. 1941 W. Temple Citizen & Churchman iv. 65 They were no longer to be apart from the world, bringing to it ab extra the divine act of redemption. 2002 R. J. Richards Romantic Conception Life viii. 293 He understood them both to have introduced into the life sciences something ab extra, something foreign to natural processes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1610 |
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