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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pre- \Pre-\ [L. prae, adverb & preposition , before, akin to pro, and to E. for, preposition : cf. F. pr['e]-. See {Pro-}, and cf. {Prior}.] A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; pre["e]minent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent. [Written also {pr[ae]-}.]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PRE-:ADAMITE:, noun One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily conceived. Melsius believed them to have inhabited "the Void" and to have been something intermediate between fishes and birds. Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PRE-:EXISTENCE:, noun An unnoted factor in creation.
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