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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

... descendant, Madame Bonaparte, her family were Pattersons, not Patersons. Her Baltimore ancestor's will is extant, has been examined by Old Mortality's great-grandson, and announces in a kind of preamble that the testator was a native of Donegal; his Christian name was William ("Notes and Queries," Fourth Series, vol. ...

— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... benefit, or otherwise, of those persons who elect to use arsenical preparations in defiance of the teachings of common sense, and in deference to the prevailing notion that arsenic is the only poison extant which has extraordinary preservative powers. This I flatly deny, after an experience of more than five and twenty years. Let us dissect the evidence as to the claim of arsenic to be considered as the antiseptic ...

— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne

... proof is furnished by the exquisite literary perfection of Greek writings. One of the common arguments in favour of the study of Greek at the present day is based upon the opinion that in the best works extant in that language the art of literary expression has reached wellnigh absolute perfection. I fully concur in this opinion, so far as to doubt if even the greatest modern writers, even a Pascal or a Voltaire, ...

— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske

... upon him in their prayers to patronise their sacrilege and zealous frenzies; in this time he did so compassionate the generality of this misled nation, that though the times threatened danger, yet he then hazarded his safety by writing the large and bold Preface now extant before his last twenty Sermons;—first printed in the year 1655;—in which there was such strength of reason, with so powerful and clear convincing applications made to the Non-conformists, as being ...

— Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, - &C, Volume Two • Izaak Walton

... Vineland as quite familiar in his Islandingabok. There are other traces of Vineland, earlier than the manuscript of the Saga of Eric the Red. Of course we do not know when that saga was first written down. The oldest extant manuscript of it belonged to one Hauk, who ...

— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang

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