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

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

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

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..

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

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

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent..

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

Alternately :: Alternately (adv.) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent..

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

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..

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

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

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

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence Solomon was the prince who built the temple, prince is the antecedent of who..

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.

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

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

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

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

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