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

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 Dewey, John

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

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

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