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Definition of Preexistent
1. Adjective. Existing previously or before something. "Variations on pre-existent musical themes"
Similar to: Antecedent
Derivative terms: Preexist, Preexist, Preexistence
Definition of Preexistent
1. Adjective. Existing previously. ¹
2. Adjective. Preceding existence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preexistent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preexistent
Literary usage of Preexistent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"... unless it had some ideal rule or copy preexistent, from which the disproved
representations do vary: although it cannot apprehend this copy distinctly, ..."
2. The Student's Common-place Book: A Cyclopedia of Illustration and Fact by Henry J. Fox (1876)
"preexistent, how engrafted in the soul: Jackson's Wks., iv, 87.—Origin of: Ed.
Rev., v, .301.—How a set of, hung together: Spec. No. 416. ..."
3. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1904)
"This, of course, leaves full room for the possibility that his Jewish conception
of the Messiah had been that of a preexistent man. If we may assume this, ..."
4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"This can only be done in virtue of the doctrine that creation is the work of the
preexistent Christ; so that we must conclude this doctrine to have been ..."
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