The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antecedently \An`te*ced"ent*ly\, adv.
Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as,
antecedently to conversion.
--Barrow.
Wiktionary
adv. In the manner of an antecedent; previously
WordNet
adv. at an earlier time or formerly; "she had previously lived in Chicago"; "he was previously president of a bank"; "better than anything previously proposed"; "a previously unquestioned attitude"; "antecedently arranged" [syn: previously]
Usage examples of "antecedently".
There is, in regard to government, as distinguished from the state, no antecedent right which binds the people, for antecedently to the existence of the government as a fact, the state is free to adopt any form that it finds practicable, or judges the wisest and best for itself.
It is what one might have expected antecedently, knowing that the world was under the regime of a good God.
These theorists or political speculators have imagined a state of nature antecedently to civil society, in which men lived without government, law, or manners, out of which they finally came by entering into a voluntary agreement with some one of their number to be king and to govern them, or with one another to submit to the rule of the majority.
He adopts the theory of a state of nature in which men lived, antecedently to their forming themselves into civil society, without government or law.
There is nothing in the law of God or of nature, antecedently to the national will, that gives any one of them a right to the exclusion of any one of the others.
Why, but because an unvitiated mind has a faculty for enjoying pleasure, which acts antecedently to any interested consideration?
There is nothing in the law of God or of nature, antecedently to the national will, that gives any one of them a right to the exclusion of any one of the others.
There is, in regard to government, as distinguished from the state, no antecedent right which binds the people, for antecedently to the existence of the government as a fact, the state is free to adopt any form that it finds practicable, or judges the wisest and best for itself.
The form of this, which lay antecedently in the mind, determines the manner in which the manifold exists together in the mind, namely, in the representation of time.