anteriorlyadv.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. sig. * iv b The two..doe demonstrate all externall partes, as well anteriorlye, as posteriorlye [Fr. tant du devant que du derriere; Du. so wel van voren als van actheren].

1733 B. Duddell App. Treat. Horney-coat of Eye iii. 107 It is requisite to remove the Crystalline from before the Pupil, and to place it anteriorly in the bottom of the Eye.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 162 The globe [of the eye] is more depressed anteriorly.

1821 J. Sowerby Mineral Conchol. Great Brit. III. 171 Isocardia minima... Globose, subdeltoid; anteriorly slightly truncated, posteriorly flattened.

1855 W. Macgillivray Nat. Hist. Dee Side 387 The ears dusky, anteriorly edged with red.

1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes 250 (heading) The dorsal and anal fins are blue with black margins, and basally they are green anteriorly and red posteriorly.

2005 L. Barnes et al. Pathol. & Genetics Head & Neck Tumours 166/2 The hard palate is continuous anteriorly with the maxillary alveolar arches and posteriorly with the soft palate.

1681 J. Bairdy Balm from Gilead 57 Power of Indulging is a thing which the Magistrate uncontrovertedly had, and did exercise anteriorly to the foresaid Assertion of Supremacy.

?1798 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 371 No, anteriorly to the decision of the Congregation here, I will send the Wedgewoods a definitive answer.

1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian iii. iii. 163 Viewing the matter not as anteriorly probable.

1855 N. Wiseman Fabiola 145 Anteriorly to the construction of catacombs.

1921 Canad. Law Times 41 551 Parliament could not pass an Act to revive a Patent which had lapsed..because it would be legislating posteriorly with reference to something which occurred anteriorly.

1994 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 68 233 No mental states in the strictest sense can occur if they result from the symbol-manipulation operation of independently and anteriorly existing mentalities.