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▸ adjective: Presumptive.
▸ noun: Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
▸ noun: An ancestor.
▸ noun: (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
▸ noun: (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
▸ noun: (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
▸ noun: (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
▸ noun: (chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
Similar:
prior,
preceding,
preexistent,
prevenient,
anticipatory,
forerunner,
ascendent,
ascendant,
ancestor,
ante,
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Adjectives:
necessary,
immediate,
invariable,
long,
direct,
important,
historical,
common,
possible,
only,
causal
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