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Antecedence   Listen
noun
Antecedence  n.  
1.
The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
2.
(Astron.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.





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"Antecedence" Quotes from Famous Books



... determine to which of the two the priority belongs. There is here no first, and no second; both are coinstantaneous and one. While I am attempting to explain this intimate coalition, I must suppose it dissolved. I must necessarily set out from the one, to which therefore I give hypothetical antecedence, in order to arrive at the other. But as there are but two factors or elements in the problem, subject and object, and as it is left indeterminate from which of them I should commence, there are two ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Words linked to "Antecedence" :   precedency, antecedent, antecedency, priority, antecede, precedence, posteriority


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