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prejacent, a. (n.)|priːˈdʒeɪsənt|
[a. OF. prejacent (15th c. in Godef.), ad. L. præjacēnt-em, pr. pple. of præjacēre to lie in front, f. præ, pre- A. 4 + jacēre to lie.]
†1. Previously existing; pre-existent. Obs.
1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. i. i. 2 Thales..said that God was an understandinge that made..all thynges of the water as matter prejacent. 1596Bell Surv. Popery i. i. i. 1 Without any antecedent or prejacent matter. 1676T. Garencières Corals 46 Without any prejacent or evident cause. a1703Burkitt On N.T. Heb. xi. 3 The world was made, not out of any pre-jacent or pre-existent matter, but out of nothing.
2. Logic. Laid down previously; constituting the original proposition from which another is inferred. Hence ellipt. as n. rare.
c1840Sir W. Hamilton Logic App. (1860) II. 276 According to the doctrine of the logicians, conversion applies only to the naked terms themselves:—the subject and predicate of the prejacent interchange places, but the quantity by which each was therein affected is excluded from the movement; remaining to affect its correlative in the subjacent proposition.
3. Lying or situated in front. rare.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 5 With respect to its situation on the side of France, this Circle is reckoned among the four anterior and six prejacent Circles of the Empire. |