ppl. a. ? Obs. [f. ANTECEDE + -ING2.] Going before, preceding; antecedent.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., Pref. 21. Both in the anteceding and succeeding passages.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 711. Such things
are [not] caused by things Natural Anteceding, but by some supernatural Power.