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Pre-existent   /pri-ɛgzˈɪstənt/   Listen
Pre-existent

adjective
1.
Existing previously or before something.  Synonyms: pre-existing, preexistent, preexisting.






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"Pre-existent" Quotes from Famous Books



... membrane that is caused by the entrance of the spermatozoon under normal circumstances—membrane formation may be necessarily coincident with the liberation in the egg of some zymose which arises from a pre-existent zymogen. But we are still some way off any assurance that the main object of the spermatozoon in inducing the development of the egg is this surface alteration. It may be the initial effect; very probably it is; but since the main ...
— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

... there is no happiness for me without this lovely woman; her turn of mind is so correspondent to my own, that we seem to have but one soul: the first moment I saw her the idea struck me that we had been friends in some pre-existent state, and were only renewing our acquaintance here; when she speaks, my heart vibrates to the sound, and owns every thought she ...
— The History of Emily Montague • Frances Brooke

... and we are forced to conclude, that there has been a zone of solution below, where steam and hot water, under great pressure, have effected the leaching of ore-bearing strata, and a zone of deposition above, where cavities in pre-existent solidified and shattered rocks became the repositories of the deposits made from ascending solutions, when the temperature and pressure were diminished. Where great masses of fused material were poured out, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 • Various



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