ab intraadv.

1624 R. Montagu Immediate Addresse 19 When ab intra from within, as great or greater, doe adde vnto the bitternesse of that Day.]

1642 E. Symmons Foure Serm. iii. 106 He [sc. a Christian] hath occasions ab intra, and he hath occasions ab extra, to use patience, which none else hath.

1672 T. Jacombe Romans v. 186 When 'tis [sc. sin is] committed with little opposition ab intra and in spight of all opposition ab extra, I assure you then it hath a great power.

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.

1770 T. Stephens Question 6 Do not suppose that it [sc. the Lex & consuetudo Parliamenti] is a different Law from the Lex communis! No! It is only a Branch of it, a Power ab intra, operating in each House, of Lords and Commons respectively.

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.

1859 J. Martineau in National Rev. Oct. 501 If we neither add anything to our premises ab extra, nor draw anything ab intra, that was not comprised in them before, no new thing ever can appear.

1860 De Bow's Rev. June 635 Government cannot exist ‘in vacuo’. It must be kept moving in its proper orbit by forces ‘ab extra’, or ‘ab intra’.

1919 Philos. Rev. 28 77 The mind must understand, in psychological and epistemological ways, what it is to apprehend the object ab intra.

1998 D. N. Chryssochoou Democracy in European Union (2000) iv. 96 The Union is a strongly enough established collective entity to..allow for a transnational demos to be built ab intra.