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- English Word Antecedence Definition The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
- English Word Antecedence Definition An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
- English Word Antecedency Definition The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.
- English Word Antecedent Definition Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
- English Word Antecedent Definition Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.
- English Word Antecedent Definition That which goes before in time; that which precedes.
- English Word Antecedent Definition One who precedes or goes in front.
- English Word Antecedent Definition The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history.
- English Word Antecedent Definition The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
- English Word Antecedent Definition The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.
- English Word Antecedent Definition The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.
- English Word Antecedent Definition The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.
- English Word Antecedently Definition Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion.
- English Word Antecessor Definition One who goes before; a predecessor.
- English Word Antecessor Definition An ancestor; a progenitor.
- English Word Antechamber Definition A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.
- English Word Antechamber Definition A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.
- English Word Antechapel Definition The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel.
- English Word Antecians Definition See Ant/cians.
- English Word Antecommunion Definition A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.
- English Word Antecursor Definition A forerunner; a precursor.
- English Word Antedate Definition Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
- English Word Antedate Definition Anticipation.
- English Word Antedate Definition To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.
- English Word Antedate Definition To precede in time.
- English Word Antedate Definition To anticipate; to make before the true time.
- English Word Antedated Definition of Antedate
- English Word Antedating Definition of Antedate
- English Word Antediluvial Definition Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.
- English Word Antediluvian Definition Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.