Meanings of pre-exist in in English

Now effects pre-exist in their cause after the mode of the cause.

It does not pre-exist in fats, but is formed when the fat is decomposed by alkali or steam.

Wherefore it is impossible for any accidental dispositions to pre-exist in matter before the substantial form, and consequently before the soul.

For effects proceed from the agent that causes them, in so far as they pre-exist in the agent; since every agent produces its like.

Now a man pre-exists in his mother as well as in his father.

Aroma pre-exists in certain grapes, and during vinification will pass into the resulting wine.

I think that my soul must have pre-existed in the body of a chamois chaser.

It only expresses in the government the fact which pre-existed in the national organization and life.

His cross-eyes, his crooked nose, his artistic talents-allthese pre-existedin the form of a protoplasmic cell.

In this sense, according to Augustine, the human body pre-existed in the previous work in their causal virtues.

But whatever semblance it has, howsoever slight, of beatitude, the whole of it pre-exists in the divine beatitude.

But what pre-exists in the corporeal creature by reason of causal virtues can be produced by some corporeal body.

1), certain seeds or principles of acquired virtue pre-exist in us by nature.

4: An effect may be said to pre-exist in the causal virtues of creatures, in two ways.

Hence evil never follows in the effect, unless some other evil pre-exists in the agent or in the matter, as was said above.

The elements of Christology pre-existing in the religious conceptions of Greece, India, and Persia, are too rich and numerous to be discussed here.