ppl. a. [f. EXIST + -ING2.] That exists or has existence; that exists at any implied or specified time.
1762. Foote, Orator, I. Wks. 1799, I. 204. They are not at present existing in this kingdom.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, IX. xiv. In Nature are two hostile Gods, Makers and Masters of existing things.
1827. Jarman, Powell’s Devises, II. 343. All the expressions applied to females, shewing that he meant existing daughters, not future issue.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 98. He bound himself not to adjourn, prorogue, or dissolve the existing Parliament without its own consent.
1872. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 5. His sympathy with existing sources of comfort.
Hence † Existingly adv., actually, as a matter of fact, in reality.
1601. Deacon & Walker, Spirits & Divels, 147. They were not existingly, but appearingly, turned into serpents.
