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 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

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

From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre

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

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