单词 | antecession |
释义 | antecessionn. Now rare. The action, condition, or fact of preceding; precedence, priority. Cf. antecedence n. 2, antecedency n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] priority?a1475 prevention1544 earliness1575 foregoinga1586 foreness1587 formerness1587 antecedency1598 anteriority1599 precedence1605 pregression1623 antecedencea1626 antecession1629 precedency1634 beforeness1635 earlierness1674 previousness1677 precursorship1856 anteriornessa1866 precession1898 1629 J. Davenant Let. 23 Feb. in M. J. Fuller Life, Lett. & Writings Davenant (1897) xiii. 324 The Distinction betwixt the Order of Execution, & Intention, does fully satisfy ye Arminian obiections concerning ye Antecession of Faith and Perseverance, in regard of our Introduction into Eternal life. 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. i. 132 The same two three or more Letters, according to their mutation of Site, or Antecession and Consequution, impart divers words to the eye, divers sounds to the ear, and divers things to the mind. 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus li. 573 Both Clyents and witnesses..be loaden and surcharged with visceration, which the antecession of meat burthens the After-noons hours with. 1712 L. Welsted tr. Longinus Wks. on Sublime Fragm. iii. 141 One may see the Origin of their elemental Existence, and trace, as it were, the Antecession and Progress of prior Bodies on to succeeding ones. 1858 W. R. Pirie Inq. Human Mind xi. 584 It makes a cause no more a cause, therefore, because its antecession is permanent. 1925 W. P. Montague Ways of Knowing x. 278 If space and time were..the most fundamental conditions of existence, it would be impossible for us to..avoid thinking of them as preconditions of bodies and events (antecession). 1950 G. T. Thomson tr. H. Heppe Reformed Dogmatics vi. 131 The antecession of origin and order in the Father. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1629 |
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