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

The preexistent Christ has made all this literature one, by the influence in the sacred writers of his omnipresent Spirit.

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

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

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