pre-Adamiten.adj.

Brit.

/ˌpriːˈadəmʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˌpriˈædəˌmaɪt/

Forms: 1600s–1800s prae-Adamite, 1600s– pre-Adamite. Also with lower-case initial in the second element.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praeadamita.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin praeadamita, noun (1655: see note) < classical Latin prae- pre- prefix + Adam (see Adam n.¹) + -īta -ite suffix¹ (compare earlier Adamite n.¹ and adj. and post-classical Latin adamita). Compare French préadamite member of a race supposed to have been created before Adam (1656 as noun, 1743 as adjective), member of a sect believing in the existence of people before Adam (1701 as noun, 1842 as adjective).Post-classical Latin praeadamita (noun) is a name given by Isaac de la Peyrère in his Præadamitæ (1655) to a race of men, the progenitors of the Gentile peoples, supposed by him to have existed long before Adam, whom he held to be the first parent of the Jews and their kindred only.

A. n.

1. A member of a race supposed to have existed before the time of the biblical Adam.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > person of ancient times > [noun]

pre-Adamite1656

primitive1779

antediluvian1823

1656 tr. I. de la Peyrère Men before Adam IV. xiv. 278 Grotius had a little before read a little discourse of the Præ-Adamites, undigested, and about to be revis'd.

1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. v. 145 Some of his Orders suppose men to be Autochthones, Intelligent Mushromes, or else Pre-Adamites born before the Moon.

1740 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 396/1 If no Pre-Adamites, why some Mortals are naturally White, and some Black?

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 11 The wild notion which some have espoused of the North American Indians being Prae-Adamites, or a separate race of men.

1821 Ld. Byron Let. 19 Sept. (1978) VIII. 216 Rational Preadamites, beings endowed with a higher intelligence than man, but totally unlike him in form.

1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 130 I am quite sure that he believes..the Pre-Adamites were..incapable of any but vehicular progression.

1879 tr. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau Human Species 31 The descendants of these Preadamites were identical with the Gentiles.

1967 B. Wright tr. R. Queneau Between Blue & Blue xvi. 169 If the preadamites lived in this cave, what did they do for light?

2002 G. M. Fredrickson Racism 52 If the pre-Adamites were considered black and inferior..Africans could be even more effectively dehumanized.

†2. Apparently: = Adamite n.¹ 1a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Adamitism > [noun] > person

Adamite1542

pre-Adamite1709

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 69. ⁋7 Dancing without Clothes on, after the manner of the Præ-Adamites.

1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 257. ⁋12 There were written on the Foreheads of these dead Men several hard Words, as Præ-Adamites, Sabbatarians, Camaronians, Muggletonians.

3. A believer in the existence of people before Adam. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > other specific doctrine > [noun] > person

pre-Adamite1710

fideist1881

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 256. ⁋4 Mr. Bickerstaff..finding Reasons, by some Expressions which the Welshman let fall in asserting the Antiquity of his family, to suspect that the said Welshman was a Præ-adamite.

1805 Tucker's Light of Nature Pursued (ed. 2) VII. xxii. 46 St. John had nothing of the preadamite belonging to him.

1896 Times Democrat (Lima, Ohio) 27 June His [sc. De la Peyrere's] followers were called ‘Pre-Adamites’.

1999 Amer. Hist. Rev. 104 35 In Europe..Isaac La Peyrère and the so-called sect of Pre-Adamites maintained that most nations had originated in separate creations.

4. New Zealand History. A settler who arrived in Canterbury Province before the settlement of 1850.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of New Zealand > [noun] > original

Zealander1773

pre-Adamite1930

1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. i. 3 The old ‘Pre-Adamites’..were those who had bought land from the New Zealand Company and settled here before the Canterbury settlers arrived.

1949 A. H. Reed Story of Canterbury iii. 55 To the Hays and Sinclairs and other ‘pre-Adamites’—as those few who had arrived before the ‘Pilgrims’ came jocularly to be called—these ships represented shops, schools, churches, roads and other amenities of which they had for so long been deprived.

1977 N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. i. 6/6 Any reader whose antecedents were among these ‘Pre-Adamites’, as they are called, is invited to send their names..to [etc.].

2002 Christchurch (N.Z.) Press (Nexis) 20 Apr. 9 There was no such fanfare for earlier settlers, though. Sealers, whalers, and farmers, who arrived from the 1830s, were labelled Pre- Adamites.

B. adj.

1. That existed before the biblical Adam; belonging to a race existing before Adam, or to a time previous to that of Adam; prehuman.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > [adjective] > living in specific era

pre-Adamite1675

the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > pre-human

pre-Adamite1675

pre-Adamitical1678

pre-Adamitic1789

pre-Adamic1836

prehuman1844

pre-man1912

1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal 11 Had men nor hands to act, nor hands to write, During the seculum Præ-Adamite?

1731 J. Chapman Remarks Let. to Dr. Waterland 41 The variety of idioms now spoken can be no way possibly accounted for, without either approving the preadamite system, or allowing a formation of new languages at Babel.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 196 Upon two beds of incorruptible cedar, lay recumbent the fleshless forms of the Preadamite Kings; who had been monarchs of the whole earth.

1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians I. x. 283 The Ginn are said to be of præadamite origin, an intermediate class of beings between angels and men.

1851 G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (1855) 271 The bones of the Mastodon and Megatherium—those terrestrial giants of the pre-Adamite earth.

1877 J. W. Dawson Origin of World xv. 356 Our knowledge of pre-Adamite and present nature.

1916 Nature 25 May 259/2 For imitation, a pre-Adamite simian character, plays no small part in the ostensible development, mental, moral, and otherwise, of gregarious folk.

1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. ii. 42 If a bishop were to say that Adam was Preadamite, we might think it a little odd.

1999 Time Mag. (Nexis) 27 Sept. 8 Why is it so difficult for the educated modern man to admit his pre-Adamite ancestry?

2. Relating to or designating the theory that a race of humans existed before Adam; of or relating to believers in this theory.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > other specific doctrine > [adjective]

pre-Adamite1863

fideistic1909

1863 Anthropol. Rev. 1 65 The Inquisition..forced him [sc. Peyrere] to abjure both his Præ-Adamite heresy and his Calvinism.

1884 Higher Crit. 1 5 The inventor of the strange Pre-Adamite hypothesis, Isaac La Peyrere.

1946 H. W. Schneider Hst. Amer. Philos. 421 The pre-Adamite theory was an attempt to fill this long interval in such a way that neither the evolutionary theory nor the authenticity of the Scriptures need be questioned.

1993 J. G. Turner One Flesh 137 His [sc. Isaac de la Peyrère's] own refinement of the Pre-Adamite theory produced fresh outrage in each generation.

Derivatives

pre-ˈAdamitism n. now historical (belief in or advocacy of) the theory that a race of humans existed before Adam.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > other specific doctrine > [noun]

pre-Adamitism1790

anhypostasia1850

fideism1885

perpetualism1905

1790 Monthly Rev. 3 543 The author adds a vindication of himself from an accusation of Pre-adamitism.

1880 A. Winchell Preadamites p. iii The central idea of the work is human preadamitism.

1998 Renaissance Q. 51 313 Snider turns to the problem of Adamic language..and to the seventeenth-century controversy about ‘pre-Adamitism’, i.e., that Adam was not the only source of succeeding generations.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pre-adamite
释义	pre-Adamiten.adj. Brit. /ˌpriːˈadəmʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌpriˈædəˌmaɪt/ Forms: 1600s–1800s prae-Adamite, 1600s– pre-Adamite. Also with lower-case initial in the second element. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praeadamita. Etymology: < post-classical Latin praeadamita, noun (1655: see note) < classical Latin prae- pre- prefix + Adam (see Adam n.¹) + -īta -ite suffix¹ (compare earlier Adamite n.¹ and adj. and post-classical Latin adamita). Compare French préadamite member of a race supposed to have been created before Adam (1656 as noun, 1743 as adjective), member of a sect believing in the existence of people before Adam (1701 as noun, 1842 as adjective).Post-classical Latin praeadamita (noun) is a name given by Isaac de la Peyrère in his Præadamitæ (1655) to a race of men, the progenitors of the Gentile peoples, supposed by him to have existed long before Adam, whom he held to be the first parent of the Jews and their kindred only. A. n. 1. A member of a race supposed to have existed before the time of the biblical Adam. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > person of ancient times > [noun] pre-Adamite1656 primitive1779 antediluvian1823 1656 tr. I. de la Peyrère Men before Adam IV. xiv. 278 Grotius had a little before read a little discourse of the Præ-Adamites, undigested, and about to be revis'd. 1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. v. 145 Some of his Orders suppose men to be Autochthones, Intelligent Mushromes, or else Pre-Adamites born before the Moon. 1740 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 396/1 If no Pre-Adamites, why some Mortals are naturally White, and some Black? 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 11 The wild notion which some have espoused of the North American Indians being Prae-Adamites, or a separate race of men. 1821 Ld. Byron Let. 19 Sept. (1978) VIII. 216 Rational Preadamites, beings endowed with a higher intelligence than man, but totally unlike him in form. 1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 130 I am quite sure that he believes..the Pre-Adamites were..incapable of any but vehicular progression. 1879 tr. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau Human Species 31 The descendants of these Preadamites were identical with the Gentiles. 1967 B. Wright tr. R. Queneau Between Blue & Blue xvi. 169 If the preadamites lived in this cave, what did they do for light? 2002 G. M. Fredrickson Racism 52 If the pre-Adamites were considered black and inferior..Africans could be even more effectively dehumanized. †2. Apparently: = Adamite n.¹ 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Adamitism > [noun] > person Adamite1542 pre-Adamite1709 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 69. ⁋7 Dancing without Clothes on, after the manner of the Præ-Adamites. 1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 257. ⁋12 There were written on the Foreheads of these dead Men several hard Words, as Præ-Adamites, Sabbatarians, Camaronians, Muggletonians. 3. A believer in the existence of people before Adam. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > other specific doctrine > [noun] > person pre-Adamite1710 fideist1881 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 256. ⁋4 Mr. Bickerstaff..finding Reasons, by some Expressions which the Welshman let fall in asserting the Antiquity of his family, to suspect that the said Welshman was a Præ-adamite. 1805 Tucker's Light of Nature Pursued (ed. 2) VII. xxii. 46 St. John had nothing of the preadamite belonging to him. 1896 Times Democrat (Lima, Ohio) 27 June His [sc. De la Peyrere's] followers were called ‘Pre-Adamites’. 1999 Amer. Hist. Rev. 104 35 In Europe..Isaac La Peyrère and the so-called sect of Pre-Adamites maintained that most nations had originated in separate creations. 4. New Zealand History. A settler who arrived in Canterbury Province before the settlement of 1850. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of New Zealand > [noun] > original Zealander1773 pre-Adamite1930 1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. i. 3 The old ‘Pre-Adamites’..were those who had bought land from the New Zealand Company and settled here before the Canterbury settlers arrived. 1949 A. H. Reed Story of Canterbury iii. 55 To the Hays and Sinclairs and other ‘pre-Adamites’—as those few who had arrived before the ‘Pilgrims’ came jocularly to be called—these ships represented shops, schools, churches, roads and other amenities of which they had for so long been deprived. 1977 N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. i. 6/6 Any reader whose antecedents were among these ‘Pre-Adamites’, as they are called, is invited to send their names..to [etc.]. 2002 Christchurch (N.Z.) Press (Nexis) 20 Apr. 9 There was no such fanfare for earlier settlers, though. Sealers, whalers, and farmers, who arrived from the 1830s, were labelled Pre- Adamites. B. adj. 1. That existed before the biblical Adam; belonging to a race existing before Adam, or to a time previous to that of Adam; prehuman. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [adjective] > living in specific era pre-Adamite1675 the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > pre-human pre-Adamite1675 pre-Adamitical1678 pre-Adamitic1789 pre-Adamic1836 prehuman1844 pre-man1912 1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal 11 Had men nor hands to act, nor hands to write, During the seculum Præ-Adamite? 1731 J. Chapman Remarks Let. to Dr. Waterland 41 The variety of idioms now spoken can be no way possibly accounted for, without either approving the preadamite system, or allowing a formation of new languages at Babel. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 196 Upon two beds of incorruptible cedar, lay recumbent the fleshless forms of the Preadamite Kings; who had been monarchs of the whole earth. 1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians I. x. 283 The Ginn are said to be of præadamite origin, an intermediate class of beings between angels and men. 1851 G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (1855) 271 The bones of the Mastodon and Megatherium—those terrestrial giants of the pre-Adamite earth. 1877 J. W. Dawson Origin of World xv. 356 Our knowledge of pre-Adamite and present nature. 1916 Nature 25 May 259/2 For imitation, a pre-Adamite simian character, plays no small part in the ostensible development, mental, moral, and otherwise, of gregarious folk. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. ii. 42 If a bishop were to say that Adam was Preadamite, we might think it a little odd. 1999 Time Mag. (Nexis) 27 Sept. 8 Why is it so difficult for the educated modern man to admit his pre-Adamite ancestry? 2. Relating to or designating the theory that a race of humans existed before Adam; of or relating to believers in this theory. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > other specific doctrine > [adjective] pre-Adamite1863 fideistic1909 1863 Anthropol. Rev. 1 65 The Inquisition..forced him [sc. Peyrere] to abjure both his Præ-Adamite heresy and his Calvinism. 1884 Higher Crit. 1 5 The inventor of the strange Pre-Adamite hypothesis, Isaac La Peyrere. 1946 H. W. Schneider Hst. Amer. Philos. 421 The pre-Adamite theory was an attempt to fill this long interval in such a way that neither the evolutionary theory nor the authenticity of the Scriptures need be questioned. 1993 J. G. Turner One Flesh 137 His [sc. Isaac de la Peyrère's] own refinement of the Pre-Adamite theory produced fresh outrage in each generation. Derivatives pre-ˈAdamitism n. now historical (belief in or advocacy of) the theory that a race of humans existed before Adam. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > other specific doctrine > [noun] pre-Adamitism1790 anhypostasia1850 fideism1885 perpetualism1905 1790 Monthly Rev. 3 543 The author adds a vindication of himself from an accusation of Pre-adamitism. 1880 A. Winchell Preadamites p. iii The central idea of the work is human preadamitism. 1998 Renaissance Q. 51 313 Snider turns to the problem of Adamic language..and to the seventeenth-century controversy about ‘pre-Adamitism’, i.e., that Adam was not the only source of succeeding generations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1656
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