Antecedent

Definition:

  • (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
  • (a.) Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.
  • (n.) That which goes before in time; that which precedes.
  • (n.) One who precedes or goes in front.
  • (n.) The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history.
  • (n.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
  • (n.) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.
  • (n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.
  • (n.) The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.

Compare antecedent with other words:

antecedent vs. enabling

antecedent vs. remedial

antecedent vs. preceding

antecedent vs. attribute

antecedent vs. precedently

antecedent vs. null

antecedent vs. mobile

antecedent vs. content

antecedent vs. determinant

antecedent vs. anterior

antecedent vs. consequence

antecedent vs. antedate

antecedent vs. antecedently

antecedence vs. antecedent

antecedent vs. prevenience

antecedent vs. proleptical

antecedent vs. protasis

antecedent vs. heretofore

antecedent vs. relative

alternately vs. antecedent

antecedent vs. hypothesis

antecedent vs. juxtaposition

antecedent vs. progenitor

antecedent vs. predecessor

antecedent vs. forefather

antecedent vs. forerunner

antecedent vs. forebear

antecedent vs. ascendent

antecedent vs. ascendant

antecedent vs. precursor

antecedent vs. precedent

antecedent vs. consequent

antecedent vs. ratio

antecedent vs. term

antecedent vs. proposition

antecedent vs. hypothetical

antecedent vs. conditional

antecedent vs. pronoun

antecedent vs. clause

antecedent vs. phrase

antecedent vs. word

ancestor vs. antecedent

antecedent vs. cause

antecedent vs. precede

antecedent vs. presumptive

antecedent vs. order

antecedent vs. time

abiogenist vs. antecedent