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Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign..

Premise :: Premise (n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

Priority :: Priority (a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application..

Presupposition :: Presupposition (n.) The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.

Preconformity :: Preconformity (n.) Anticipative or antecedent conformity.

Alternately :: Alternately (adv.) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent..

Preparatory :: Preparatory (a.) Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition..

Precedent :: Precedent (a.) Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services..

Precedaneous :: Precedaneous (a.) Preceding; antecedent; previous.

Anterior :: Anterior (a.) Before in time; antecedent.

Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability..

Etoolin :: Etoolin (n.) A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll..

They :: They (obj.) The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed..

Preordinance :: Preordinance (n.) Antecedent decree or determination.

Antedate :: Antedate (n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

Consequent :: Consequent (n.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent..

Previous :: Previous (a.) Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness..

Antecedency :: Antecedency (n.) The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.

Prior :: Prior (a.) Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage..

For :: For (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.

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