pre-Adamite
English
Etymology
Noun
pre-Adamite (plural pre-Adamites)
- A member of any race that predates Adam.
- A believer in pre-Adamitism.
Adjective
pre-Adamite (comparative more pre-Adamite, superlative most pre-Adamite)
- Of or pertaining to a race that predates Adam; pre-human.
- 1885 — Pooh-Bah, in W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act I
- I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
- 1885 — Pooh-Bah, in W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act I