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

Presentiment :: Presentiment (n.) Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding..

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

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

Whence :: Whence (adv.) From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively..

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

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..

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.

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

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

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die..

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

Antecedently :: Antecedently (adv.) Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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