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Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign..

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

Previous :: Previous (a.) Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness..

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..

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

Prefix :: Prefix (v. t.) To set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish antecedently.

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Homologous :: Homologous (a.) Having the same relative proportion or value, as the two antecedents or the two consequents of a proportion..

Consequent :: Consequent (n.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent..

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

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..

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

Which :: Which (pron.) A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons..

Precedent :: Precedent (a.) Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services..

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