Crossword-Solution: ANTECEDENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Antecedent | a. | Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. |
| Antecedent | a. | Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. |
| Antecedent | n. | That which goes before in time; that which precedes. |
| Antecedent | n. | One who precedes or goes in front. |
| Antecedent | n. | The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history. |
| Antecedent | n. | The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who. |
| Antecedent | n. | The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move. |
| Antecedent | n. | The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die. |
| Antecedent | n. | The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with ANTECEDENT (5)
Look at the other class of pleasures which have no antecedent pains and you will no longer suppose, as you perhaps may at present, that pleasure is only the cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure.
Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
This respect kept at bay the curiosity that might still have lingered in some minds concerning his antecedent life.
Mary, while every external means of investigation was working at its highest pressure, had ransacked her husband’s papers for any trace of antecedent complications, of entanglements or obligations unknown to her, that might throw a faint ray into the darkness.
Indeed, this bibliography reads like a continued story, with constant references to both antecedent and subsequent action.
Quotes with ANTECEDENT (3)
Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.
That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how should the faculty of knowledge be called into activity, if not by objects which affect our senses and which, on the one hand, produce representations by themselves or on the other, rouse the activity of our understanding to compare, connect, or separate them and thus to convert the raw material of our sensible impressions into knowledge of objects, which we call experience? With respect to time, the…
We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1983–2009).