antecedent

Earlier, either in time or in order.

an antecedent cause

an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood

Presumptive.

an antecedent improbability

Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.

An ancestor.

The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.

A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.

[W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who is appropriated to persons, so that should have been appropriated to things […] the antecedent of that is often personal

One such condition can be formulated in terms of the c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16) below: (16) C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent

The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.

The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.