antecede
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of antecede
First recorded in 1615–25, antecede is from the Latin word antecēdere to go before, precede, excel, surpass. See ante-, cede
Explanation
When one event antecedes another, it comes first. In an election year, party primaries typically antecede the general election. You can use the verb antecede to mean "come before" or "occur earlier." A more common word with the same meaning is precede. You could say that in your cookie recipe, creaming the butter and sugar together antecedes adding the flour. The word comes from the Latin antecedere, "to go before," from ante-, "before," and cedere, "to yield."
Vocabulary lists containing antecede
Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: ante, anti
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It must antecede death, or it will be of no avail.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew
And when we consider the assurances given us, that these declensions were to antecede the universal prevalence of true religion; they may also serve to increase our hope.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew
Moreover, these parts cannot antecede this one all-embracing space, as the component parts from which the aggregate can be made up, but can be cogitated only as existing in it.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
Then we shall have, so to speak, the second and third terms; and from these it won't be difficult, I think, to calculate the term which should antecede them, namely, temperament.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
Convictions, ordinarily, if not invariably, antecede conversion, prepare for it, and lead to it.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew
Only the London Philharmonic, founded in 1813, anteceded it in the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
A glance at the anteceding pages of this libellus me-sheweth poor Will Roper at ye season his love-fitt for me was at its height.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
In them I learned much anteceding any reasoning whatever.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Theist and Agnostic must agree in recognizing the properties of Space as inherent, eternal, uncreated—as anteceding all creation, if creation has taken place.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
Some would have us believe that the Samvat era "is not demonstrable for times anteceding the Christian era at all."
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
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