Crossword-Solution: PREEXIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preexist | v. i. | To exist previously; to exist before something else. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PREEXIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Be there already | 1 answer |
| Come beforehand | 1 answer |
| exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time | 1 answer |
| antedate | 10 answers |
| come before | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MECAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PREEXIST (5)
The old idea of fixity of character does not suit our modern notions of growth; we demand that character be created by the story; it should not preexist, as Schopenhauer thought it should, with its nature as determinate and its reactions as predictable as those of a chemical substance.
There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by virtue of preceding affections, in the world of spirit.
But the volition to call up new objects and circumstances in relation to some principle of the mind that had been slumbering,--for example, fear, must itself have a motive; but the motive to call up objects of fear must preexist; if it exist at all.
Must geometry be regarded both as a branch of kinematics and as a branch of optics? I recall besides that our Euclidean space which is the proper object of geometry has been chosen, for reasons of convenience, from among a certain number of types which preexist in our mind and which are called groups.
Thus there is neither any eye nor any motive organ engendered until the brain is produced, and the faculties preexist which are to see and to govern motion.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2005–2009).