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

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

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

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

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