forecreated
English
Alternative forms
- fore-created
Adjective
forecreated (not comparable)
- Created beforehand
- 1592, A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion:
- Plato propoundeth a Question (saith he) whether the Worlde was created after the patterne of a thing forecreated, or of a thing without beginning.
- 1855, John Donne, Essayes in divinity:
- [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); […]
- 2001, original 1815, Stephen Charnock, James M'Cosh, Work of Stephen Charnock, Volume 02:
- 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.
- 1592, A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion:
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