forecreated

English

Alternative forms

• fore-created

Etymology

From fore- +‎ created.

Adjective

forecreated (not comparable)

1. 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.