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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extant \Ex"tant\, a. [L. extans, -antis, or exstans -antis, p.
pr of extare exstare to stand out or forth; ex out + stare
to stand: cf F. extant. See {Stand}.]
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
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
extant
adj : still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost;
"extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found
among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd [ant: {extinct}]
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