Word Meanings - PREEXISTENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Existing previously; preceding existence; as, a preƫxistent state. Pope.
Related words: (words related to PREEXISTENT)
- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - EXIST
exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift. - PRECEDENTLY
Beforehand; antecedently. - EXISTER
One who exists. - EXISTIBLE
Capable of existence. Grew. - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - PRECEDENTED
Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole. - EXISTENT
Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - PRECEDE
1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the - STATESMANLY
Becoming a statesman. - STATESMAN
1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light - STATEDLY
At stated times; regularly. - PRECEDENCE; PRECEDENCY
1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior - STATELESS
Without state or pomp. - STATEMONGER
One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs. - STATED
1. Settled; established; fixed. He is capable of corruption who receives more than what is the stated and unquestionable fee of his office. Addison. 2. Recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours. - STATEFUL
Full of state; stately. "A stateful silence." Marston. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - POSTEXIST
To exist after; to live subsequently. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - NONEXISTENCE
1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne. - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - REESTATE
To reƫstablish. Walis. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - ARISTATE
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. - BICOSTATE
Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. - TRIPLICOSTATE
Three-ribbed. - DEHONESTATE
To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see - DEVASTATE
To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage. - SELF-EXISTENT
Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.