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What does antecedent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word antecedent? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Earlier, either in time or order.
  2. presumptive
Noun
  1. Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
  2. An ancestor.
  3. (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
  4. (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
  5. (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
  6. (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
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