[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pre- \pre-\ l. prae, adv.  prep., before, akin to pro, and to
   e. for, prep.: cf. f. pr'e-. see pro-, and cf. prior.
   a prefix denoting priority of time, place, or rank; as,
   precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to
   fix or place before; pre"eminent eminent before or above
   others. pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent,
   very potent. written also prae-.
   1913 webster
see also:
pro- prior prae- 

[2] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

pre-:adamite:, n.  one of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory
race of antedated creation and lived under conditions not easily
conceived.  melsius believed them to have inhabited "the void" and to
have been something intermediate between fishes and birds.  little its
known of them beyond the fact that they supplied cain with a wife and
theologians with a controversy.

[3] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

pre-:existence:, n.  an unnoted factor in creation.

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