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adjective

Extant adj.

Standing out or above any surface; protruded. "That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums." "A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant."

Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding. "Writings that were extant at that time." "The extant portraits of this great man."

Publicly known; conspicuous. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Extant" Quotes from Famous Books

... There is extant a little pamphlet, whose publication was prompted doubtless by hate. It was published in Holland, and it contains some very curious details of the manner in which Madame de Maintenon entered into an understanding with Fagon, for the purposes of controlling Louis ...

— The Physiology of Marriage, Part III. • Honore de Balzac

... hold the eternity of matter, but they have nothing to suggest for its origin. They accept it as the starting point of evolution, and decline to speculate on its cause. This, as Dr. Christlieb observes of Bauer's kindred system of criticism, is 'beginning without a beginning—everything is already extant'. We may as well start with species, as with protoplasm, if the inquiry is not to be pushed beyond the fact. The evolutionist is bound to answer whether the process is eternal, or how it began to be. Either it had a beginning or it had not; if ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

... Fourth—who was an Englishman named Nicholas Breakspear,—to issue the famous Bull granting Ireland to his fellow countryman, Henry the Second of England, or whether, as it has been alleged, no such Bull was ever issued, and that the one still extant is a forgery, it matters but little now. The Pope's claims extended to the spiritual jurisdiction of Ireland only; and even had he granted the Bull in question, and assumed the right of conveying the whole island to the English ...

— Ridgeway - An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada • Scian Dubh

... idea of the way of life of a Jesuit priest and of his daily labours than the curious letter of Nicolas Neenguiru, originally written in Guarani, but of which a translation is extant in the ...

— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham

... treatise on "The Government of Lacedaemon." Translated by J. S. Watson. This work is believed to be the earliest extant specimen of Attic prose. Mahaffy describes it as "one of the most interesting and instructive documents of the age, very remarkable for its Machiavellian tone, in its calm ignoring of the right and wrong of the case ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various

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