antepone

t. [In Sp. anteponer; Ital. anteporre to prefer. From Lat. antepono: ante before, and pono to put or place.] To place one thing before another; to prefer one thing before another. ( Bailey.) ăn'-tě-năm-běr, s. [Lat. ante, and Eng. ăn-tě-pört, s. [Lat. ante = before, and por- number. In Sp. an ten ombre .] A number preceding another one. "Whatsoever virtue is in numbers for conducing to consent of notes, is rather to be ascribed to the ante number than to the entire number, as that the sound return eth after six or after twelve, so that the seventh or thirteenth is not the matter, but the sixth or the twelfth."- Bacon .