Antecedent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ANTECEDENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun
• a thing that existed before or logically precedes another
• an earlier word, phrase, or clause to which another word (especially a following relative pronoun) refers back.
• the statement contained in the ‘if’ clause of a conditional proposition.
• That which goes before in time; that which precedes.
• One who precedes or goes in front.
• The earlier events of one\'s life; previous principles, conduct, course, history.
• The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence \"Solomon was the prince who built the temple,\" prince is the antecedent of who.
• The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.
• The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.
• The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.
• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
• a preceding occurrence or cause or event
• anything that precedes something similar in time
• the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
• the statement contained in the ‘if’ clause of a conditional proposition.
• a person's ancestors or family and social background
ADJECTIVE:
• foregoing
• preceding in time or order; previous or pre-existing
• denoting or counting as an antecedent.
• Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
• Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun (as John in “Mary saw John and called to him”); broadly; a word or phrase replaced by a substitute

Words related to ANTECEDENT

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How to use ANTECEDENT in a sentence

• Hence the Light-God is not the Sun-God, but his Antecedent and Creator.
• What is said of the suppression of the antecedent? 26.
• They gradually emerged in an antecedent age, reached their culmination in the one which they characterize, and then gradually died out in a succeeding.
• The miracle plays, then, are the oldest antecedent of Elizabethan drama, but it must not be supposed they were over and done with before the great age began.
• The antecedent objection against miracles is, he says, one of experience, but not one of reason.
• Reason, looking at nature and experience, is said to raise an antecedent obstacle to them which no alleged proof of fact can get over.
• It is not in reason, which refuses to pronounce upon the possible merely from experience of the actual, that the antecedent objection to miracles is rooted.
• If we admitted some antecedent state of the world as the independent cause of the actual world, we should indeed implicitly, admit the pradhana doctrine.
• This provision has its antecedent in the Arabic Bayan, where a similar dispensation was granted.
• They would be equivalent to the sudden creation, without antecedent cause, of a whole vast system of nerves and nerve-centres in the prodigious brain of some infant phenomenon.
• The certainty of those things which most surely are believed among us, is a matter quite distinct from their antecedent probability or improbability.
• I cannot think there was anything in my antecedent reading to account for this coincidence.
• Cut deep into a rough ledge not far off was the rough carving of a serpent, sixty feet long, that must have been left here by a race antecedent to the Tarahumares.
• For every species or form, it points out some ancestor or natural antecedent, from which by gradual modification, it has been derived.
• The third condition antecedent to a conference on peace is the renunciation and abandonment of the German submarine warfare upon merchant shipping.
• Labor and birth pains are antecedent to the delivery of a moral being.
• Excepting the rood-loft galleries, we have few galleries in our churches of a period antecedent to the latter part of the seventeenth century.
• Cross within the circle represents the light antecedent to Chaos, 782-l.
• Be sure that the pronoun agrees in number with its antecedent.
• The relative pronoun is regarded as agreeing in person with its antecedent.
• It may be that one might never have observed smoke without an antecedent ass, or an ass without the smoke following it, but even that is not enough.
• If he ever has any consciousness, it is an isolated, momentary thing, with no relation to anything antecedent or subsequent.
• Intelligence is not an antecedent of thought and knowledge but their character and logical energy.
• Still, of English actresses antecedent to the Desdemona of the Vere Street Theatre, certain traces have been discovered.
• The antecedent is often incorporated in the relative clause.
• Is often serves as the antecedent of the relative qui.
• The real commencement goes back to the Stone ages or at any rate to the antecedent circumstances which led up to the crisis or the formation of the characters portrayed.

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