The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preexistent \Pre`["e]x*ist"ent\, a.
Existing previously; preceding existence; as, a
pre["e]xistent state.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Existing previously. 2 Preceding existence.
WordNet
adj. existing previously or before something; "variations on pre-existent musical themes" [syn: pre-existent, preexisting, pre-existing]
Usage examples of "preexistent".
Every year, preexistent in the almanac, each day already marked out on the perpetual calendar.
If this were so, it is not the only instance in which the preexistent discolorations in the mind of an inspired prophet have refracted the truth of his burden into distorted error and bequeathed the task of a future rectification when more light shall have come.
The preexistent eternal Word began His divine thesis with the first one in Genesis 2 and consummates it with the last one in Revelation 19.