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anteˈcedently, adv.
[f. antecedent a. + -ly2.]
1. Previously, before, in time or causal relation.
1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 227 Sinne, as a cause antecedently moving Gods will. 1694Slare in Phil. Trans. XVIII. 213 That the Air was antecedently there, we may reasonably believe. 1754Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. v. 186 The Obedience..to which we are antecedently bound. 1863Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. iii. 347 Testimony as to facts which they had antecedently known. 1864Reader No. 94. 471/3 Since the days of Charles VIII, if not antecedently.
b. with to.
1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. ii. 61 Notions..engraven in the Soul antecedently to any discursive Ratiocination. 1776Campbell Rhet. I. 146 Testimony, antecedently to experience, hath a natural influence on belief. 1845Stephen Laws of Eng. II. 300 Born antecedently to 14th August 1834.
2. ellipt.
a. Not as a consequence, arbitrarily.
1682Norris Hierocles 52 If by the divine sentence Riches were allotted to one, and Poverty to another antecedently and absolutely.
b. Previously to experience, presumptively, à priori.
1861Maine Anc. Law (1874) 115 It would seem antecedently that we ought to commence with the simplest social forms. 1867Froude Short Stud. 150 More evidence is required to establish a fact antecedently improbable. |