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 Dorin Teodor Moisa
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 John Dewey
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 Augustus Hopkins Strong
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
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