antecedence

== English == === Etymology === From Latin antecēdentia from Latin antecēdēns (“preceding”), from antecēdō (“go before”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ænˈtɛsɪdəns/ === Noun === antecedence (countable and uncountable, plural antecedences) The relationship of preceding something in time or order. Synonyms: precedence, priority; see also Thesaurus:anteriority Antonyms: subsequence; see also Thesaurus:posteriority 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, “Of Man,” Chapter 12, p. 52,[3] […] whereas there is no other Felicity of Beasts, but the enjoying of their quotidian Food, Ease, and Lusts; as having little, or no foresight of the time to come, for want of observation, and memory of the order, consequence, and dependance of the things they see; Man observeth how one Event hath been produced by another; and remembreth in them Antecedence and Consequence; That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry). The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another. 1851, John Richardson, Arctic Searching Expedition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume 2, Appendix, No. 2, pp. 239-240,[10] The average antecedence of spring phenomena at Carlton House to their occurrence at Cumberland House is between a fortnight and three weeks. 1949, William Scott Ferguson, “Orgeonika” in Commemorative Studies in Honor of Theodore Leslie Shear, Hesperia Supplement VIII, reprint, Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1975, p. 146,[11] […] the following year would have shown an antecedence of the conciliar year over the civil of […] fourteen days. (grammar) The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent. (geology) A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them. 2005, Wallace R. Hansen, The Geologic Story of the Uinta Mountains, Guilford, CT: Falcon, 2nd ed., p. 26,[14] Speculation as to how the Green River established its course across the Uinta Mountains led Powell to introduce such terms as “superposition” and “antecedence” to identify processes by which streams are able to establish and maintain courses across mountain barriers. (astronomy, obsolete) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west. Synonym: retrogradation ==== Synonyms ==== ==== Related terms ==== antecede antecedent antecedently antecessor (obsolete) ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === Samuel Johnson (15 April 1755), “Antece′dence”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–K), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 2: “The act or ſtate of going before; precedence.”