pre-Adamite

[pree-ad-uh-mahyt]

noun

1. a person supposed to have existed before Adam.

2. a person who believes that there were people in existence before Adam.

adjective

1. Also pre-Adamic existing before Adam.

2. of or relating to the pre-Adamites.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pre-Adamite¹

First recorded in 1655–65; pre- + Adam + -ite ¹

Example Sentences

"It was only a beginning—leading up to a study of the pre-Adamite trees, which I hope to make, later," Miss Billy answered.

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Pre-Adamite, prē-ad′a-mīt, n. one who lived before Adam.—adjs.

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I ask you, sir, if you ever, in the course of the travels in which you have out-rivalled Stanley, Cameron, Livingstone, Harry de Windt, and, may I add, De Rougemont, ever came across an oasis, consisting of two score villas, built with scarcely baked bricks, reposing on an arid waste amid a number of tumbled-down cottages, and surmounted by a mighty workhouse-like hotel looking down on a pre-Adamite beershop?

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The book was not published, had not an existence, until seven or eight months after that article—a reasonably indifferent one, by the way—was penned; and yet we are asked to take that sort of pre-Adamite notice as a verdict in its favour!

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We were the only inhabitants of a new-found beautiful world; we were shipwrecked on an unspoiled pre-Adamite island; we were, well—just a couple of enthusiastic bush-lovers, with some ability to appreciate the beauty of old mother Nature.

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