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antecedence|æntɪˈsiːdəns|
[f. L. antecēdentia (see next), on analogy of ns. in -ence through Fr. (mod.Fr. antécédence is a neologism, Littré).]
1. The action or fact of going before, precedence, priority:
a. in time.
1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. iii. 77 A pre-existence of the simple Bodies..and an antecedence of their Constitution. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) I. i. x. 195 The Antecedence of a colder climate. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. iv. 134 Not that we claim a mere antecedence and originality for the separate precepts of Christianity.
b. in a causal relation.
1651Hobbes Lev. i. xii. 52 Man..remembreth in them Antecedence and Consequence. 1830Sir J. Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 151 Invariable antecedence of the cause and consequence of the effect.
†2. That which goes before or precedes:
a. An antecedent, a premiss. (Cf. antecedens in antecedent n. 1 b.)
1535Joye Apol. Tindale 5 His antecedence may be true and consequence false.
b. The preceding part.
1593Nashe Lent. Stuffe 7 The rest of the antecedence of the day worne out in disputations.
3. Astr. A motion from a later to an earlier sign of the Zodiac, or from east to west; retrograde motion; also a position more to the west.
1669Flamstead in Phil. Trans. IV. 1109 Therefore she [the Moon] is in Antecedence of the Star 15 m. 25 sec. 1740Winthrop ibid. XLII. 575 Mercury was in Antecedence of the Sun 3′ 57{pp}. 1797Encycl. Brit. (Astronomy) II. 508/1 A motion of the heavens in the order of the signs..is said to be a motion in consequence; and such are the true motions of all the planets; tho' their apparent motions are sometimes contrary, and then they are said to move in antecedence.
Add:4. Physical Geogr. and Geol. The formation of an antecedent drainage system; the persistence of a pre-existing drainage pattern despite later deformation of the land surface.
1942O. D. von Engeln Geomorphol. xii. 227 Antecedence is independent of the topographic or structural guidance of a covering mass. 1959G. H. Dury Face of Earth iii. 24 Antecedence is to be expected in regions where the crust is unstable. 1970R. J. Small Study of Landforms vii. 251 In some instances the impossibility of antecedence, as a mechanism to account for a discordant river pattern, can be easily shown. 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 76/1 Antecedence, whereby a rapidly eroding stream manages to keep on cutting down through a fold rising only slowly across its path. |