PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation.... Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
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YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
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