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

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

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

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

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

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

They :: They (obj.) The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed..

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

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.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

Etoolin :: Etoolin (n.) A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll..

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..

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

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..

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