单词 | antefact |
释义 | antefactn. Something done or occurring before; a previous act or event. Later also: a previously existing circumstance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > an act or deed > former or past antefact1623 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Antefact, a deed done before. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 87 Being cleared and quitted from all ante-facts how hainous soever, by their entrance into Christianity. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 39 Confession was of antefacts, not postfacts. 1982 Renaissance Q. 35 606 The line for Livy is unwavering. From Dante (‘unerring Livy’) via Petrarch and Valla it runs straight... Professor Mansfield is unaware of this simple antefact. 2009 M. Bondi in M. Charles et al. Acad. Writing iv. 85 From the point of view of the writer's (and the reader's) temporal perspective..in the wake of and in the aftermath of illustrate a retrospective standpoint, presenting the landmark event as an antefact to the main event/state in focus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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