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• s  existing previously or before something
  variations on pre-existent musical themes

• They came to light only when it was found that diets apparently perfectly balanced according to pre-existent information did not provide proper nourishment in some cases arid .
• The church teaches that man treads a progressive path to perfection: in a pre-existent state as a soul without a body, in the life on earth, and finally in the afterlife.
• The church, he wrote, should "no longer speak of a union of the divine and human nature in one pre-existent person.

• preexistent
• preexisting
• pre-existing