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
Though the rays are always inseparable from the sun, nevertheless, the sun is preexistent and the rays are phenomenal, for the existence of the rays depends upon that of the sun.
From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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 John Morrison
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 John Dewey
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
