Vocabulary : Ant-eater to Antechapel

Ant-eater : One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.
Antecedaneous : Antecedent; preceding in time.
Antecede : To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.
Antecedence : The act or state of going before in time; precedence. ;; An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
Antecedency : The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.

Antecedent : Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. ;; Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. ;; That which goes before in time; that which precedes. ;; One who precedes or goes in front. ;; The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history. ;; The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who. ;; The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move. ;; The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die. ;; The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.
Antecedently : Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion.
Antecessor : One who goes before; a predecessor. ;; An ancestor; a progenitor.
Antechamber : A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby. ;; A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.
Antechapel : The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel.

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