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

This question cannot be settled by saying that "it would be a mere waste of time and space to enumerate the proofs which show that the Universe was created by a preexistent and self-conscious Being."

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Verily, she is a leaf that hath sprung from this preexistent Root.

From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre

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