| 单词 | antecede |
| 释义 | antecede (once / 1337 pages) v When one event antecedes another, it comes first. In an election year, party primaries typically antecede the general election. You can use the verb antecede to mean "come before" or "occur earlier." A more common word with the same meaning is precede. You could say that in your cookie recipe, creaming the butter and sugar together antecedes adding the flour. The word comes from the Latin antecedere, "to go before," from ante-, "before," and cedere, "to yield." WORD FAMILYantecede: anteceded, antecedence, antecedency, antecedent, antecedes, anteceding+/antecedence: antecedences/antecedency: antecedencies/antecedent: antecedently, antecedents USAGE EXAMPLESIn them I learned much anteceding any reasoning whatever. Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston, All the Days of My Life: An Autobio...(2011) Both schools united, however, in the conviction that DARKNESS—Erebus—anteceded all other created things. Dawson, John William, The Origin of the World According t...(2010) Theist and Agnostic must agree in recognizing the properties of Space as inherent, eternal, uncreated—as anteceding all creation, if creation has taken place. Dreiser, Theodore, The "Genius"(2010) v be earlier in time; go back further Syn|Ant antedate, forego, forgo, precede, predate follow, postdate be later in time come after, followcome after in time, as a result |
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