Hypertext Webster Gateway: "preexisting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Preexist \Pre`["e]x*ist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pre["e]xisted};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Pre["e]xisting}.]
To exist previously; to exist before something else.
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