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antecedence

/an-tuh-seed-ns/US // ˌæn təˈsid ns //UK // (ˌæntɪˈsiːdəns) //

前言,前事,前因后果,前事之师

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of going before; precedence.
    • : priority.
    • : Astronomy. apparent retrograde motion.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • We may explain why Thrasyllus placed the Kleitophon in immediate antecedence to the Republic: because 1.

  • Causation, as Brown had finally proved, means simply antecedence and consequence.

  • It is of invariable antecedence that we speak alike in both cases, and of invariable antecedence only.

  • Or do 'states of consciousness enter as links into the chain of antecedence and sequence which gives rise to bodily actions?'

  • In many ways men have expressed, and will express hereafter, the creative or causal antecedence of the spiritual principle.