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

Antecedency :: Antecedency (n.) The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.

Reflexive :: Reflexive (a.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective..

Presupposition :: Presupposition (n.) The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Uncaused :: Uncaused (a.) Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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