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Premise :: Premise (n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

Previously :: Previously (adv.) Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed..

Priority :: Priority (a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application..

Preordinance :: Preordinance (n.) Antecedent decree or determination.

Preconformity :: Preconformity (n.) Anticipative or antecedent conformity.

Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..

Precedently :: Precedently (adv.) Beforehand; antecedently.

Foregleam :: Foregleam (n.) An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.

Relative :: Relative (n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives who, which, that..

Preterient :: Preterient (a.) Passed through; antecedent; previous; as, preterient states..

Preparatory :: Preparatory (a.) Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition..

Presuppose :: Presuppose (v. t.) To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) One who precedes or goes in front.

Pepsinogen :: Pepsinogen (n.) The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin.

Alternately :: Alternately (adv.) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent..

Abiogenist :: Abiogenist (n.) One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent.

Precondition :: Precondition (n.) A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.

Relative :: Relative (a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun..

What :: What (pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative..

Proleptical :: Proleptical (a.) Previous; antecedent.

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