"Preexisting" is a word in ENGLISH

The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living …

That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but …

The doctrine that the soul is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- …

One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, …

To exist previously; to exist before something else.

of Preexist

Existence in a former state, or previous to something else.

Existence of the soul before its union with the body; -- a doctrine held by certain philosophers.

Preexistence.

Existing previously; preceding existence; as, a preexistent state.

The theory of a preexistence of souls before their association with human bodies.

An old theory of the preexistence of germs. Cf. Embo/tement.

To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral …