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Extant
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Standing out or above any surface; protruded. That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums. Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant. Bentley.
2. Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding. Writings that were extant at that time. Sir M. Hale. The extant portraits of this great man. I. Taylor.
3. Publicly known; conspicuous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.