ppl. a. ? Obs. [f. ANTECEDE + -ING2.] Going before, preceding; antecedent.

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a. 1619.  Fotherby, Atheom., Pref. 21. Both in the anteceding and succeeding passages.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 711. Such things … are [not] caused by things Natural Anteceding, but by some supernatural Power.

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