antecedaneous (antesedaneus)

[ Barrow , Sermons, II. xxix. antecede (an-te-sēd'), v. t.; pret. and pp. ante ceded, ppr. anteceding. [L. antecedere, go before, precede, in space or time, It seems consonant to reason that the fabric of the world did not long antecede its motion. Sir M. Hale , Orig. of Mankind, i. 82. Primarily certain individual claims, and secondarily the social welfare furthered by enforcing such claims, furnish a warrant for law, anteceding political authority and its enactments. antecedence (an-te-se'dens), n. [F. antécé- dence, antécédent : see antecedent .] 1. The act of going before, or state of being before, in time, place, rank, or logical order; precedence. Meanwhile, if we are really to think of freedom as abso- lute and perfect in man-a perfect freedom from the neces- sity of any antecedence - we ought logically to think of it as free from all influence of God or Devil, as Will, that is, in which the Omnipresent is not present and the Omnipo etent has no power. Maudsley, Body and Will, p. 7. 2. In astron ., an apparent motion of a planet from east to west, or contrary to the order of the signs of the zodiac. = Syn. 1. Precedence , etc. antecedency (an-te-se'den-si), n. or condition of being antecedent.