antecedents

_Subduct from any phenomenon such part as previous inductions have shown to be the effect of certain antecedents, and the residue of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents_.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

But the French naturalist was of very different antecedents from the English surveyor.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

We now wish to show that in antecedents, education, temperament, and in her writings, she represents the mass of her contemporaries – is a type of her era.

The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses 1893

One of the reasons I strongly recommend using antecedents is that if you say your story is like ROMANCING THE STONE and LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER, it tells me you have a woman hero in an inflated action story that’s going after adrenaline and excitement.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Michael Hauge, Part 1 2006

And I love words, especially exotic ones with Greek or Latin antecedents.

LIFE is Good 2009 Zenmomma 2009

Her antecedents were the rancorous, meddlesome Macedonian queens who routinely poisoned brothers and sent armies against sons.

Elizabeth Debold: Divine Feminine Alert 2009

Here you have in very simplified terms the antecedents of modern Greece.

Giorgos Seferis - Nobel Lecture 1963

It is well, however, to recall the antecedents of a party that first tried to get into power through discreditable expedients, before resorting to a declaration of honest principles in finance.

The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes James Quay Howard

The words are taken from 2Kings xi. 9, but there refer to the captains, while here the antecedents are the Levites and all the men of Judah -- as if each one of these last had a company of his own which entered upon service, or left it, every Sabbath day.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

The Notes, with the papers which precede them, will, I think, be better understood if I give some preliminary account of their antecedents, that is of Romanes 'previous publications on the subject of religion.

Thoughts on Religion George John Romanes 1871