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
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
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 Dorin Teodor Moisa
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 Ellen Marriage
