▪ I. inexistent, a.1
(ˌɪnɛgˈzɪstənt)
Also 7 -ant.
[ad. late L. inexistent-em (Boethius), f. in- (in-2) + ex(s)istent-em existing, existent.]
Existing or having its being in something else; inherent.
| 1553 Bale Gardiner's De vera Obed. F ij a, Both scriptures and reasons do alow it [the supreme head of the Church], as a thing inexistent vnto the name of a prince and of a king. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §14. 15 [tr. Aristotle] Empedocles and Democritus..say that Generation is not the Production of any new Entity, but only the Secretion of what was before Inexistant. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 190 The ideas of pain, ignorance, doubt..too frequently inexistent in the minds of men. |
▪ II. ineˈxistent, a.2 ? Obs.
[in-3. Cf. F. inexistant (Littré), med. or mod.L. inexistens.]
Not existing; having no existence; non-existent. (In quot. 1704, said of a state in which the person is as if non-existent.)
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xx. 263 They took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes into mixtures inexistent. 1704 Steele Lying Lover v. i, Oh sleep!..Still in thy downy Arms embrace my Friend, Nor loose him from his inexistent Trance. |