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 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

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

They would also learn, with Peter, that Scripture is the work and word of the preexistent Christ.

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