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 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
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
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 Augustus Hopkins Strong
Verily, she is a leaf that hath sprung from this preexistent Root.
From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre
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