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UK
/ˌæntɪsˈiːdənt/
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[ US /ˌænˈtɛsədənt, ˌæntɪˈsidənt/ ]
[ US /ˌænˈtɛsədənt, ˌæntɪˈsidənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- preceding in time or order
NOUN
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
- a preceding occurrence or cause or event
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anything that precedes something similar in time
phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience
How To Use antecedent In A Sentence
- These astragali have four clearly defined surfaces and were probably the antecedents of the ordinary six-faced cube or die, specimens of which are datable as far back as 3000 B.C.
- ‘If lying is wrong, then he will lie,’ has an antecedent whose embedded content is the same as a statement predicating the property on which the speakers moral disapproval supervenes.
- Here you have in very simplified terms the antecedents of modern Greece. Giorgos Seferis - Nobel Lecture
- A’ B.there exists some form of connection between the antecedent A and the succedent B. Axiom A4, for example, is bad in this respect. Connexive Logic
- This was an obligement never to be forgotten; and the more to be considerd, because antecedent to her love. Dedication
- In these cases it is obvious that the pronouns don't refer, so they can't be coreferential with their antecedents, either. Discourse Representation Theory
- One of the reasons I strongly recommend using antecedents is that if you say your story is like ROMANCING THE STONE and LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER, it tells me you have a woman hero in an inflated action story that’s going after adrenaline and excitement. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Michael Hauge, Part 1
- Paradox seems to arise when conditional statements have subcontrary statements as antecedent and consequent.
- The philosophical doctrine that every event, act, and decision is the inevitable consequence of antecedents that are independent of the human will.
- Indeed, despite antecedent ideas and practices, modern acupuncture, with such strange aspects as electro - acupuncture, may never have existed in traditional China in anything like the form that it is practised today.
