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• s  existing previously or before something

• De Creeft believes that a sculpture, like the chicken in the egg, is partially "preexistent" in the shape of the block, the grain, the texture.
• We all know the shape it will take--incentives to increase enrollment in insurance companies, government subsidies for poor people, and a pool of people with preexistent conditions .

• pre-existent
• preexisting
• pre-existing

Quotes

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• Avery Dulles in Zenit News Agency
  First, a word on the concept of reform itself: As Cardinal Avery Dulles wrote in an insightful essay five years ago, "to reform is to give new and better form to a preexistent reality, while preserving the essentials. Unlike innovation, reform...