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coexistent, a. and n.|kəʊɛgˈzɪstənt|
[f. co- + existent; cf. F. coexistant.]
A. adj. Existing together or in conjunction; coexisting; contemporaneous.
1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. ii. §2 He makes Semiramis coexistent with the Siege of Troy. 1863E. Neale Anal. Th. & Nat. 39 Relations between combinations thought of as coexistent or as successive. 1878Gurney Crystallogr. 30 Every group of such coexistent faces is called a crystallographic form.
B. n. That which coexists with something else; a concomitant.
1846Mill Logic iii. xxii. §4 Every property of an object has an invariable coexistent which he called its Form. 1856Chamb. Jrnl. VI. 34 Gorgeous envelopments..were almost necessarily the coexistents of elaborate writing. |