a. [f. med.L. *antecēdāne-us (f. antecēd-ĕre: see ANTECEDE) + -OUS: see -ANEOUS.] Having the property or character of preceding or going before; of a preliminary or previous character.
1630. Preston, Breastpl. Faith, 12. As antecedaneous [printed -darious] and precedent to the pardon.
1655. Bramhall, Answ. Hobbes, in Wks. (1677), 715 (R.). He makes … a willing of the end … to be no willing at all, but onely some antecedaneous inclination or propension.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 165. Some antecedaneous weakness of the patient.
1692. Cov. Grace, 58. The Promise is made … without any Condition in us Antecedaneous, as a moving cause. [Not in J.]
1818. in Todd.
