adv. ? Obs. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an antecedaneous manner; previously.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 51. Those more special kinds of beings to be treated of Antecedaneously to the Predicaments.
1688. Norris, Theor. Love (1694), 198. Neither is this latter … made only Practical by being put in Practice, but is so antecedaneously.
