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

I must stop, captain; no one can describe the woman he loves save very imperfectly, preexistent mysteries which defy analysis lie between them.

From The Country Doctor by Marriage, Ellen

Though the rays are always inseparable from the sun, nevertheless, the sun is preexistent and the rays are phenomenal, for the existence of the rays depends upon that of the sun.

From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Our author is himself a devout believer in a preexistent Christ, and he recognizes some rays of Christ's light in Buddha and in Confucius.

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

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