They have been partially retained by the power of inheritance, and relate to a former state of things.
Miss Hazel,--'must they be banished to the "former state?
What sort of a person were you in a former state, Mr. Rollo?
Do you know,' he said, 'I begin to think I have known you in a former state of existence?
I was a red squirrel then, in the "former state" to which I referred a while ago.
And the king thought highly of the great-hearted Gunavara, and considered, because he possessed that wife, that he must have accomplished virtuous acts in a former state of existence.
And when I arrived there, I at once remembered that I had been a Vidyadhara in a former state of existence, and that the curse I had received from Siva had come to an end.
So your sister is my former wife, and you were my friend in a former state of existence, therefore it is quite proper that I should marry her.
The man who is able successfully to complete this course of discipline and practice is no ordinary person, but is supposed to possess merit produced from good actions performed in a former state of existence.
He is much more serious in distinguishing men from animals by their recognition of the universal which they have known in a former state, and in denying that this gift of reason can ever be obliterated or lost.
The language of the Meno and the Phaedo as well as of the Phaedrus seems to show that at one time of his life Plato was quite serious in maintaining a former state of existence.
Falling back, return to a former state (especially a bad state).
The souls of men returning to earth bring back a latent memory of ideas, which were known to them in a former state.
The Meno goes back to a former state of existence, in which men did and suffered good and evil, and received the reward or punishment of them until their sin was purged away and they were allowed to return to earth.
But they are spoken of in a different manner, and are not supposed to be recovered from a former state of existence.
These were revealed to men in a former state of existence, and are recovered by reminiscence (anamnesis) or association from sensible things.
First, from the present state of things, to infer a former state of fusion among mineral bodies.
Existence in a former state, or previous to something else.
And if we had ideas in a former state, then our souls must have existed and must have had intelligence in a former state.
But we are now tracing a former state of things; and those furrowed rocks testify the former current of a river by their side.
It is only an atavistic phenomenon, the return to a former state.
Atavism, the reversion to a former state, is the first feeble indication of the reaction opposed by nature to the perturbing causes which seek to alter her delicate mechanism.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "former state" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
