forecreated

adj

Etymology

From fore- + created.

Definitions

  1. Created beforehand

    • Plato propoundeth a Question (saith he) whether the Worlde was created after the patterne of a thing forecreated, or of a thing without beginning.
    • [yet] to the Jews, who roundly deny this exposition, and to the Arians, who accept it (and yet call Christ a creature, as forecreated for an assistant in this second creation); […]
    • If that one thing of matter were excepted, a chief thing were excepted; if not one thing were excepted, then he created something of nothing, because spirits, as angels and souls, are not made of any pre-existing or fore-created matter.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for forecreated. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA