Synonyms for antecedent
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : an-tuh-seed-nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌæn təˈsid nt |
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for antecedent
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