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

Zymogen :: Zymogen (n.) A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment..

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

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move..

Antecedently :: Antecedently (adv.) Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion..

Uncaused :: Uncaused (a.) Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal.

Whence :: Whence (adv.) From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively..

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

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

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history..

Previously :: Previously (adv.) Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed..

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..

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

Proleptical :: Proleptical (a.) Previous; antecedent.

Pepsinogen :: Pepsinogen (n.) The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin.

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

Former :: Former (a.) Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past..

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

Abiogenist :: Abiogenist (n.) One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent.

Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..

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