Search the Dictionary

Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

98,828 entries. Headwords are matched first, then definition text.

26 words match “EXISTENT”

The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.

Having existence. [Archaic] Bp. Barlow. --Ex`is*ten"tial*ly, adv. [Archaic] Existentially as well as essentially intelligent. Colerige.

COEXISTENT a. 2 definitions

That which coexists with another. The law of coexistent vibrations. Whewell.

INEXISTENT a. 2 definitions

Not having being; not existing.

Not having existence.

POSTEXISTENT a.

Existing or living after. [R.] "Postexistent atoms." Cudworth.

Existing previously; preceding existence; as, a preëxistent state. Pope.

PREEXISTENTISM n.

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

SELF-EXISTENT a.

ing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.

Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.

ACTUALIZATION n.

A making actual or really existent. [R.] Emerson.

In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.

Coexistent. Locke.

COMPLICATION n.

A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. Fuller. God's first creature was light. Bacon. On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him…

Hence, really existing; existent. Is it true, that thou art but a a name, And no essential thing Webster (1623).

INCREATE; INCREATED a.

Uncreated; self-existent. [R.] Bright effincreate. Milton.

Inexistent; not existing. [Obs.] Gudworth.

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

That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.