from without

A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.

The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose.

Arising or growing from without

A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires.