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
- : preceding; prior: an antecedent event.
n.名词 noun
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- : 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.
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