a. ? Obs. [f. L. antecēdent-ia (see prec.) + -AL 1: cf. incident-al.] Of or pertaining to antecedents.
1796. Hutton, Math. Dict., I. 121. Antecedental Method, a branch of general geometrical proportion … derived from an examination of the Antecedents of ratios having given consequents, and a given standard of comparison, in the various degrees of augmentation and diminution which they undergo by composition and decomposition … published in 1793.
