antecedent
Collocations
4ADJ.
biblical, missing, restored
VERB + ANTECEDENT
sentences
ANTECEDENT + NOUN
chemistry, improbability
ADV.
often
Definitions
adj
Earlier, either in time or in order.
an antecedent cause
an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood
Presumptive.
an antecedent improbability
noun
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.
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Synonyms
noun — anything that precedes something similar in time
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6an antecedent cause
Wiktionaryan event antecedent to the Biblical Flood
Wiktionaryan antecedent improbability
WiktionaryThe Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.
Wiktionary[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
WiktionaryOne 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 a
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