preexistent

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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

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

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

But in brahmanical philosophy, pantheism is nothing else than the inability to pass beyond the initial idea of infinite preexistent, unconditioned, Deity.

From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John

From Thine ancient treasury confer a new being and animus, and from Thy preexistent abode assist them to attain to new confirmations.

From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá