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
But in brahmanical philosophy, pantheism is nothing else than the inability to pass beyond the initial idea of infinite preexistent, unconditioned, Deity.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by John Morrison
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
Verily, she is a leaf that hath sprung from this preexistent Root.
From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre
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
