What is "antepredicament"

Antepredicament \An`te*pre*dic"a*ment\, n. (Logic) A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms.
--Chambers.

n. (context logic English) A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and category, such as definitions of common terms.

Antepredicaments, in logic, are certain previous matters requisite to a more easy and clear apprehension of the doctrine of predicaments or categories. Such are definitions of common terms, as equivocals, univocals, etc., with divisions of things, their differences, etc. They are thus called because Aristotle treated them before the predicaments, hoping that the thread of discourse might not afterwards be interrupted.