ab intra

[ ahb in-trah; English ab in-truh ]

adverb

, Latin.

1. from inside; from within.

Example Sentences

Therefore I cannot accept the conclusions of those who in their study of ethnology claim to find that the religious beliefs of the world, and even the very idea of a Supreme Being, have been evolved by man himself ab intra.

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Either of you has enough of the vis ab intra to make a good soldier.

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If we exclude space by an abstract assumption, the time remains as a spaceless point, and represents the concentered power of unity and active negation, i.e. retraction, determination, and limit, ab intra.

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There is now a regular projection, ab intra ad extra, for which neither sprouts nor cuttings can any longer be the substitutes.

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If life, in general, be defined vis ab intra, cujus proprium est coadunare plura in rem unicam, quantùm est res unica; the unity will be more intense in proportion as it constitutes each particular thing a whole of itself; and yet more, again, in proportion to the number and interdependence of the parts, which it unites as a whole.

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