antecedes

The hostility of the Catholic Church to the Republican movement antecedes the atrocities of the Civil War.

The Volokh Conspiracy » American Universities and the Nazis: 2009

Purity antecedes all spiritual attainments and progress.

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver

The spirit in man is not a product of nature, but antecedes nature, and is above it as sovereign, being of the very essence of that spirit which breathed on the face of the waters, and whose song, flowing from the silence as an incantation, summoned the stars into being out of chaos.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

Theism, Christian philosophy is frankly dualistic, although it acknowledges that, since actuality antecedes potency by nature and, as a matter of fact, the world originated in time, while God is eternal, there was, before creation, but One Reality.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Now the reason of this again is that apperception, and with it thought, antecedes all possible determinate arrangement of representations.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

But, as in this case we make abstraction of all intuition, we lose altogether the mode in which the manifold determines to each of its parts its place, that is, the form of sensibility (space); and yet this mode antecedes all empirical causality.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

I cannot reverse this and go back from the event, and determine (by apprehension) that which antecedes it.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

In the aesthetic, I regarded this unity as belonging entirely to sensibility, for the purpose of indicating that it antecedes all conceptions, although it presupposes a synthesis which does not belong to sense, through which alone, however, all our conceptions of space and time are possible.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

Thus, the relation of phenomena (as possible perceptions), according to which that which happens is, as to its existence, necessarily determined in time by something which antecedes, in conformity with a rule -- in other words, the relation of cause and effect -- is the condition of the objective validity of our empirical judgements in regard to the sequence of perceptions, consequently of their empirical truth, and therefore of experience.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

An extensive quantity I call that wherein the representation of the parts renders possible (and therefore necessarily antecedes) the representation of the whole.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764