Variations on pre-existent musical themes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : primitive artifacts that preexisted sophisticated tools. From Dictionary.com.
Both were new departures from pre-existent schools. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
The pre-existent knowledge required is of two kinds. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
Phrases of pre-existent chants were inserted into the lesson. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Music from Medieval England] Reference
There has never been any evidence of a pre-existent Cylon life. From Wordnik.com. [New clips from THE PLAN] Reference
Life beyond the grave is still progressive; the soul is pre-existent. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Iceland, however, this pre-existent harmony is capable of being proved. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
If Burton in a pre-existent state — and he half believed in the Pre-existence of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
For one thing, it is apt to suggest the idea of a pre-existent human consciousness of. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
This relic was now as dry as a brick, and seemed to belong to a pre-existent civilization. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
ALL instruction given or received by way of argument proceeds from pre-existent knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
pre-existent beings and pre-existent messiahs are a dime a dozen in the second temple period. From Wordnik.com. [HANDS Across the Godhead?] Reference
A social construction, yes, but a construction based on an pre-existent system of oppression. From Wordnik.com. [i have no smart words for this « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference
The Constitution - flawed or not - is a magnificent document that protects pre-existent rights. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write an Anti-Gun Editorial] Reference
The apparatus which impresses a pattern on the androids will have to use pre-existent data banks. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
It is undoubtedly impossible positively to disprove the hypothesis of eternally pre-existent souls. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
At other times it means, as here, "in a former age," some pre-existent state in the time of a former birth. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference
An example is the recent japanese transfer vehicle to the ISS, which had to use pre-existent docking systems. From Wordnik.com. [Committee Urges Multi-Destination Plan for NASA Human Space Flight | Universe Today] Reference
At other times it means, as here, “in a former age,” some pre-existent state in the time of a former birth. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms] Reference
Yet perhaps Plato may regard these sides or faces as only the forms which are impressed on pre-existent matter. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
A pre-existent systemic disease in the father, or a coexistent disorder in the mother, may be a leading factor. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
To produce something excellent out of pre-existent matter; as it is said afterwards, He created whales, and man. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
They also don't deal with the fact that the Enochic Son of Man is pre-existent, existing before the stars angels. From Wordnik.com. [HANDS Across the Godhead?] Reference
When we enter into the world, there is already a world that was pre-existent, framed, and formed by those before us. From Wordnik.com. [George Elerick: Jesus: The Anti-Capitalist God and a Manifesto for a Better World] Reference
The notion of the world fashioned from pre-existent matter of some sort was a universal idea in Greco-Roman cosmology. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
The classic view is that the reference is to "spiritual riches", to a pre-existent status given up in the incarnation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference
Instead, Urizen is the demiurge, a "self-deluded and anxious" forger of pre-existent matter, as Kathleen Raine explains. From Wordnik.com. [William Blake's picture of God] Reference
And the pre-existent Logos in John shares at least 12 strong points of parallel with the wisdom tradition as Talbert shows. From Wordnik.com. [HANDS Across the Godhead?] Reference
Rather that movement caused the pre-existent heavy and light things to go to the middle and stay on the surface respectively. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heavens] Reference
When a new set is built up, it is added to those that have been used in forming it, without altering their pre-existent structure. From Wordnik.com. [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference
So that personal identity, reaching no further than consciousness reaches, a pre-existent spirit not having continued so many ages in. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
Thus reason which united us to the gods was not, according to the Stoics, a pre-existent principal, but a gradual development out of sense. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
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