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antecedently

/an-tuh-seed-nt/US // ˌæn təˈsid nt //UK // (ˌæntɪˈsiːdənt) //

前面是,前面的,之前,前期

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : preceding; prior: an antecedent event.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon, etc.
    • : antecedents, ancestors. the history, events, characteristics, etc., of one's earlier life: Little is known about his birth and antecedents.
    • : Grammar. a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier, in the same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence. In Jane lost a glove and she can't find it, Jane is the antecedent of she and glove is the antecedent of it.
    • : Mathematics. the first term of a ratio; the first or third term of a proportion.the first of two vectors in a dyad.
    • : Logic. the conditional element in a proposition, as “Caesar conquered Gaul,” in “If Caesar conquered Gaul, he was a great general.”

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Examples

  • The propitiation required antecedently to a revelation was indeed offered.

  • With inexorable logic, each conclusion is deduced from what has been antecedently admitted as indisputable.

  • Such was the history of this man antecedently to his being placed in the situation in which I had first encountered him.

  • When a man is ill and after deliberation concludes that it be well to see a doctor, the doctor doubtless exists antecedently.

  • It is antecedently true only if it can bring about these changes.