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Adjective
/ˌantəˈsēdnt/,
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antecedents, plural;
  1. Preceding in time or order; previous or preexisting
    • - the antecedent events that prompt you to break a diet
  2. Denoting a grammatical antecedent

Noun
  1. A thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another
    • - some antecedents to the African novel might exist in Africa's oral traditions
  2. A person's ancestors or family and social background
    • - her early life and antecedents have been traced
  3. A word, phrase, clause, or sentence to which another word (esp. a following relative pronoun) refers

  4. The statement contained in the “if” clause of a conditional proposition

  5. The first term in a ratio

  1. preceding in time or order
  2. ancestor: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
  3. a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  4. anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
  5. the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
  6. (antecedently) previously: 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"
  7. In genealogy or in phylogenetic studies of evolutionary biology an antecedent, antecessor or antecedents are predecessors in a family line. I am the descendants of my grandparents, they are my antecedents. ...
  8. A common stylistic problem in writing, often leading to confusion, is the use of a pronoun for which the antecedent is not clear, as in the following example: I met John at Mike's party. He told me about his new friend.
  9. Antecedents are the life history and previous convictions of a defendant in a criminal case. They are colloquially known as "previous convictions" (or simply "previous") in the U.K. and "prior convictions" (or simply "priors") in the United States and Australia.
  10. An antecedent is the first half of a hypothetical proposition.
  11. Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing; An ancestor; A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun; The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; Earlier, either in time or order
  12. (Antecedents) A person’s criminal record and background. This is not normally disclosed to the jury, but will be given to the Judge if the person is found guilty and is to be sentenced or where the issue is whether the accused should be released on bail or held in custody pending the hearing.
  13. (Antecedents) Warning signs that indicate a service user is escalating towards a violent act.
  14. existed before the cultural landscape emerged (e.g., Malaysia/Indonesia)
  15. A factor that precedes and is associated with a specific outcome — but does not necessarily cause the outcome. For example, living in a community with a high unemployment rate is an antecedent of adolescent pregnancy.
  16. the 'if' part of a conditional; represented by p; aka hypothesis, given, problem; see consequent
  17. n :  1. a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun (as John in "Mary saw John and called to him"); broadly: a word or phrase replaced by a substitute;  2. the conditional element in a proposition (as if A in "if A, then B").
  18. An expression which is referred to by a pronoun or anaphor of some kind. For example, in 'John cut himself shaving', John is the antecedent of the anaphor himself, since himself refers back to John. ...
  19. The “if” part of a conditional: e.g., “Bush is president” in “If Bush is president, then he is over 35 years of age.”
  20. The antecedent of a rule is its left-hand side, that is, the first argument to the #$implies connective with which the rule begins. Intuitively, every rule states that if the antecedent is true, then the consequent must be true.
  21. When an association between two variables is defined, the first item (or left-hand side) is called the antecedent. For example, in the relationship “When a prospector buys a pick, he buys a shovel 14% of the time,” “buys a pick” is the antecedent.
  22. Conditions present prior to the behavior in question. Antecedents that influence operant behavior are either discriminative stimuli, which evoke the behavior, or, function altering stimuli of some kind that change the evocative capacity of the discriminative stimulus (this can include motivating ...
  23. The initial (or "if") part of a fuzzy rule.
  24. something that comes before, precedes, or causes a behavior.
  25. An event that precedes another one. Respondent behaviors are responses to antecedent events.