antecedent

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
  2. An ancestor.
    — The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.
  3. A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.
    — [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who is appropriated to persons, so that should have been appropriated to things […] the antecedent of that is often personal
  4. The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
  5. The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
  6. The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
  7. Previous principles, conduct, history, etc. in-plural
形容词 adj.
  1. Earlier, either in time or in order. not-comparable
    — an antecedent cause
  2. Presumptive. not-comparable
    — an antecedent improbability

词形变化

antecedents plural

词汇关系

反义词
consequent succedent anaphor
衍生词
antecedently antecedent phrase last antecedent rule
相关词
antecede antecedence precedence juxtaposition

词源

词源 1
From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”).
词源 2
From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”).
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