an tec edental (antes edental)

Relating to what is antecedent or goes before. - An tec edental method, a branch of general geometrical proportion, or universal comparison of ratios. antecedently (an-te-se dent-li), adv. 1. Previously; at a time preceding. We consider him antecedently to his creation, while he yet lay in the barren womb of nothing, and only in the number of po ibilities. South. 2. In advance of any observation of the effects of a given hypothesis; on a prior i grounds. We are clearly proceeding on the a umption that there is some fixed relation of cause and effect, in virtue of which the means we adopt may be antecedently expected to bring about the end we are in pursuit of. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 81. The known facts as to the periodicity of sun-spots, and the sympathy between them and the prominences, make it antecedently probable that a corresponding variation will be found in the corona. C. A. Young , The Sun, p. 230. an tec e ive (an-te-ses'iv), a. [L. as if * ante ce ivus , ante ce us , pp. of antecedere : see an tecede .] Antecedent. [Rare.] antece or (an-te-ses'or), n. [ anteces sour , L. antece or , foregoer, teacher or profe or of law, predece or in office (the original of ancestor, q. v.), antecedere , go before, pp. before; a predece or. [Now rare.] IMG:content-0826.png:[merged small][ocr errors] A venerable regard not inferior to any of his antece ors . Wood, Athen. Oxon. Carlyle. 2. A title given among the Romans - ( a ) to the soldiers who preceded an army and made all nece ary arrangements as to camping, supplies, the scouting service, etc.; (b) under the later empire, to profe ors of civil law in the public schools.-3t. In law , an ancestor; a predece or; one who po e ed certain land before the present po e or or holder. antece or The antece or was most commonly he that po e ed the lands in King Edward's time before the Conquest. Brady, Glo ary. The King's most noble progenitors, and the antece ors of the nobles of this realm. R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., iii., note. The places [in Domesday] which speak of the antece or and of the rights derived from him to the present owner are endle . E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, V. 11.