Antonyms for antecedent

Grammar : Adj

Spell : an-tuh-seed-nt

Phonetic Transcription : ˌæn təˈsid nt

Definition of antecedent

Origin : late 14c. (n. and adj.), from Old French antecedent (14c.) or directly from Latin antecedentem (nominative antecedens), present participle of antecedere "go before, precede," from ante- "before" (see ante) + cedere "to yield" (see cede). Used as a noun in Latin philosophical writings.

adj prior

Example sentences :

The antecedent of this pronoun had been mentioned for the last time at eight o'clock.
Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens

If magnetism be an antecedent factor, magnetism may be its product.
Extract from : « The Machinery of the Universe » by Amos Emerson Dolbear

The antecedent in this instance is not Rubicon, but the entire clause.
Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)

His scientists, his historians were all of the Victorian age or antecedent thereto.
Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland

No, its head spring, in this case, was antecedent to the lake.
Extract from : « Bertha and Her Baptism » by Nehemiah Adams

Antecedent—That to which a relative pronoun or a relative clause refers.
Extract from : « Punctuation » by Frederick W. Hamilton

What is it that binds the consequent to its antecedent in nature?
Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall

It is not brought about by the presence of antecedent realities.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 » by Various

This appears to be the antecedent of the modern country club.
Extract from : « Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century » by Annie Lash Jester

For a parallelogramme is cut into two equall triangles, by the antecedent.
Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus

Synonyms for antecedent

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