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Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis..

Preformation :: Preformation (n.) An old theory of the preexistence of germs. Cf. Embo/tement.

Preexistency :: Preexistency (n.) Preexistence.

Patripassian :: Patripassian (n.) One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian..

Preexistence :: Preexistence (n.) Existence in a former state, or previous to something else..

Preexistent :: Preexistent (a.) Existing previously; preceding existence; as, a preexistent state..

Preexisted :: Preexisted (imp. & p. p.) of Preexis.

Preexistentism :: Preexistentism (n.) The theory of a preexistence of souls before their association with human bodies.

Preexisting :: Preexisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preexis.

Preexistence :: Preexistence (n.) Existence of the soul before its union with the body; -- a doctrine held by certain philosophers.

Emboitement :: Emboitement (n.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another..

Preexistimation :: Preexistimation (n.) Previous esteem or estimation.

Infusionism :: Infusionism (n.) The doctrine that the soul is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to tradicianism and creationism..

Preexist :: Preexist (v. i.) To exist previously; to exist before something else.

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