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

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

They would also learn, with Peter, that Scripture is the work and word of the preexistent Christ.

From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins

As knowledge is preexistent, the things known are equally so, and the individualizations and the specifications of beings, which are the preexistent knowledges of the Essence of Unity, are the Divine Knowledge itself.

From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá