preexistent
- a word derived from preexist.
Example Sentences
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De Creeft believes that a sculpture, like the chicken in the egg, is partially "preexistent" in the shape of the block, the grain, the texture.
From Time Magazine Archive
The characteristics which distinguish our age from all others are the very ones which have been found so destructive to preexistent civilizations.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
I must stop, captain; no one can describe the woman he loves save very imperfectly, preexistent mysteries which defy analysis lie between them.
From The Country Doctor by Marriage, Ellen
As knowledge is preexistent, the things known are equally so, and the individualizations and the specifications of beings, which are the preexistent knowledges of the Essence of Unity, are the Divine Knowledge itself.
From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá
This latter method seems to ignore the relation of Scripture to Christ, and to proceed in its investigations as if there were no preexistent Christ to furnish its principle.
From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins
