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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

anteriority

/an-teer-ee-er/US // ænˈtɪər i ər //UK // (ænˈtɪərɪə) //

前置性,前置,前瞻性,前部

Related Words

past过去,过去的,过去的事情,过去的事antecedent先例,前事,前事之师,前身precedent先例,前例,判例,惯例former前,以前的,曾经的,前任foregoing上述内容,前述内容,上述,上述的preceding前面的,前面提到的,前面,前面的例子previous以前的,以前,过去,以往

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : situated before or at the front of; fore.
    • : going before in time or sequence; preceding; earlier: events anterior to the outbreak of war.
    • : Linguistics. articulated in the region extending from the alveolar ridge to the lips; alveolar, dental, or labial.
    • : pertaining to or toward the head or forward end of the body.
    • : pertaining to or toward the front plane of the body, equivalent to the ventral surface of quadrupeds.
    • : Botany. on the front side and away from the main axis, as the lower lip of a flower.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as infront office
Synonyms
executive hierarchy行政等级制度,行政级别,行政等级制,行政等级top brass高级官员,高层人士,高层管理人员,高级职员upstairs楼上,楼上的,楼上的人,在楼上
as inantecedence
Synonyms
antecedency先例,前身,前提,前置性importance重要性,重要意义,重要程度,重要的是precedency先例,优先权,前例,资格priority优先权,优先事项,优先级,优先考虑

Examples

  • On the other hand, anteriority and posteriority exist in dimension as well as in numbers.

  • The ogive is, perhaps, very ancient; and authors dispute as to the anteriority of the Romanesque to the Gothic.

  • This anteriority of nature is a commonplace in philosophy: thus one says that the decrees of God have an order among themselves.

  • We should here draw a distinction between the two senses of the a priori: anteriority and superiority.

  • A simple physical mechanism may be a priori, in the sense of anteriority.

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