preterient, a. rare.
(prɪˈtɛrɪənt)
[f. L. præteriens, pres. pple. of præterīre to go by, pass (of which, however, the stem of the oblique cases is prætereunt-).]
Passing or going by: transient. So preˈterience, the fact or condition of being passing or transient.
| 1786 Cumberland Observer No. 11 I. 97 Migrating after the death of one body into that of another, with the faculty of remembering all the actions of its præterient states. c 1827 Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. (1882) CXXXI. 120 There seems to me a confusion of schein with the præterience or impermanence. |