Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Extant

Extant , adjective

[Latin extans, -antis, or exstans, -antis, present participle of extare, exstare, to stand out or forth; ex out + stare to stand: compare French 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. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson