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

Zymogen :: Zymogen (n.) A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment..

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

Precedaneous :: Precedaneous (a.) Preceding; antecedent; previous.

Former :: Former (a.) Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past..

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..

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

Correlative :: Correlative (n.) The antecedent of a pronoun.

Trypsinogen :: Trypsinogen (n.) The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move..

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

Prior :: Prior (a.) Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage..

For :: For (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history..

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

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

Anterior :: Anterior (a.) Before in time; antecedent.

Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..

Antecedaneous :: Antecedaneous (a.) Antecedent; preceding in time.

Antedate :: Antedate (n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

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