pre-Adamite

American  

[pree-ad-uh-mahyt] / priˈæd əˌmaɪt /

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.

Etymology

Origin of pre-Adamite

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

Example Sentences

Further in the distance, through a dim exhalation, across the mists of eternities, I beheld vaguely the seventy-two pre-Adamite kings, with their seventy-two peoples, vanished forever.

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy

Where there is a good paying demand for pre-Adamite skulls, there will always be a good supply.

From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Patterson, Robert

Go, spear a seal, and be a reasonable being!—Never enthusiast had a dream of the future so unspeakably Utopian as actual history becomes, when seen from the Esquimaux, or pre-Adamite, point of view.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

Quite a Noah's Ark sort of person,—a fossil of the pre-Adamite period.

From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

It is a region of rocks, petrifactions, and other pre-Adamite peculiarities.

From Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature by Various