Ēx'tant, a.
a. [Lat. extans, extantis, or exstans, exstantis, p. pr. of extare, or exstare, to stand out or forth, from ex, out of, from, and stare, to stand; Fr. extant.]
Sense 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.
Sense 2. Continuing to exist; in being; now subsisting; not overwhelmed, so as to be out of sight or forgotten; not lost or destroyed. “Writings that were extant at that time.” Hale. “The extant portraits of this great man.” I. Taylor.