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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: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:[…] 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:[…] 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, page 4:She had never antecedently regarded this occupation of his as any objection to having him for a husband.
2008, Michael Della Rocca, chapter 4, in Spinoza, London: Routledge, page 161: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.
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