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
It must be admitted that to a considerable extent the progress thus procured has been only technical: it has provided more efficient means for satisfying preexistent desires, rather than modified the quality of human purposes.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
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
The truth will activate directly the preexistent action model, which is in this case to flee.
From The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Moisa, Dorin Teodor
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
