antecedently
English
Etymology
antecedent + -ly
Adverb
antecedently (comparative more antecedently, superlative most antecedently)
- At an earlier time.
- Synonyms: beforehand, earlier, precedently, previously
- Antonyms: afterward, later, subsequently
- 1593, Richard Harvey, Philadelphus, London: John Wolfe,[1]
- The History of Brute and the Brutans setteth forth. Principally and antecedently their persons, & in them sheweth the geneallogy or issue which they had, artes which they studied, actes which they did.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, Part 4, pp. 214-215,[2]
- […] it does not at all appear, that all Mixtures must be of Elementary Bodies; but it seems farr more probable, that there are divers sorts of compound Bodies, even in regard of all or some of their Ingredients, consider’d Antecedently to their Mixture.
- 1739, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon, Volume 1, Part 2, Section 6, p. 123,[3]
- […] nothing is ever present to the mind but perceptions, and […] all ideas are deriv’d from something antecedently present to the mind;
- 1896, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman” in Wessex Tales, New York: Harper, p. 4,[4]
- She had never antecedently regarded this occupation of his as any objection to having him for a husband.
- 2008, Michael Della Rocca, Spinoza, London: Routledge, Chapter 4, p. 161,[5]
- The case of envy just described is one in which we feel joy or sadness at the sadness or joy of one we antecedently hate.
Translations
in an antecedent manner
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