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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Precedence.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of going before, or state of being before, in time, place, rank, or logical order; precedence.
  • noun In astronomy, an apparent motion of a planet from east to west, or contrary to the order of the signs of the zodiac.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
  • noun (Astron.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of preceding in time or order.
  • noun astronomy An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun preceding in time

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Examples

  • "[W] hereas there is no other felicity of beasts but the enjoying of their quotidian food, ease, and lusts, as having little or no foresight ... man observes how one event has been produced by another, and remembers in them antecedence and consequence," declared Hobbes.

    Andrew Belonsky: What the BP Oil Spill Tells Us About Human Nature 2010

  • Got this off Bookmooch, after reading purple_pen's review (in which she explores its literary antecedence of Doctor Who), and greatly enjoyed it.

    October Books 22) The Moving Toyshop purple_pen 2008

  • What land have you been living, this level of sentence is typical bordering on severe these days and i have seen much worse lenient sentencing for the most fatuous of reasons for much more serious crimes with greater antecedence.

    Final Fantasy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • The Manual of Reason states that an antecedent is irrelevant if its antecedence is only established along with some other entity.

    Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India Ganeri, Jonardon 2009

  • Ford, while developing their vehicles, had kept in apperception and had fabricated it their top antecedence to accord their assemblage the amount for their hard-earned money, while never compromising the affection of the cartage that they produce.

    Ford Your Way with Quality Ford Auto Parts 2008

  • But this does not apply when vor- has a temporal force, whether of anticipation, e.g. vorweg, 'ahead', or of antecedence, e.g. vorgängig, 'previously'.

    Archive 2007-06-01 enowning 2007

  • The fifth chapter is about the word si, which is said to signify causality in or via antecedence.

    Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007

  • Ereignis, as equality and reciprocity of the two sides of the double relation, contradicts the absolute preponderance and antecedence of being over man.

    Archive 2007-01-01 enowning 2007

  • But this does not apply when vor- has a temporal force, whether of anticipation, e.g. vorweg, 'ahead', or of antecedence, e.g. vorgängig, 'previously'.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • So, as the late president returns to Washington, it's a different place, but in many ways, it has antecedence during his years in the White House as the world began to change.

    CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2004 2004

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