antecedaneousadj.

?1631 W. Twisse Doctr. Synod of Dort & Arles 182 Molina will have Gods concourse to be simultaneous with the will, not antecedaneous in nature to the wills operation.

1655 J. Bramhall Def. True Liberty 207 He makes a willing..no willing at all, but onely some antecedaneous inclination.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 165/1 Some antecedaneous weakness [L. debilitatem antecedaneam] of the patient.

1692 Cov. Grace 58 The Promise is made..without any Condition in us Antecedaneous, as a moving cause.

1713 R. Fern Pract. Disc. Humane Bodies v. 46 Answering some Questions that are Antecedaneous and Preparatory.

1809 S. Lowry Ess., Explanatory & Exper., Sel. Passages Script. 23 To believe on Christ..is to rest on him for salvation..irrespective..of all human performances, whether antecedaneous, concomitant, or subsequent.

1854 Sc. Gardener 3 134 If fitness and antecedaneous associations in the mind might confer this authority, Loudon was tolerably well justified in the use of this term.

1885 National Rev. Feb. 726 The hero of the nursery rhyme..was not an antecedaneous Birmingham rough, but the retainer of an Anglo-Norman settler in Munster.

2000 R. W. Jordan in J. B. Brough & L. Embree Many Faces of Time ii. 54 Collecting..includes an antecedaneous, automatic, passive, and receptive consciousness of the formal universals embodied by the sets it constitutes.