pre-Adamite

See also: preadamite, Preadamite, and préadamite

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) præ-Adamite

Etymology

From pre- +‎ Adamite.

Noun

pre-Adamite (plural pre-Adamites)

1. A member of any race that predates Adam.
2. A believer in pre-Adamitism.

Adjective

pre-Adamite (comparative more pre-Adamite, superlative most pre-Adamite)

1. Of or pertaining to a race that predates Adam; pre-human.
   • 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Poo-Bah”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:

     I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.