forecreated
Created beforehand
Adjective
- 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. - 1592, A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion
- [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); […] - 1855, John Donne, Essayes in...
- 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...
Origin
From fore- + created.