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Antecedent decree or determination. Shak.

One who reigns before another; a sovereign predecessor. [R.] Warner.

A going before; anticipation in sequence or order. "The law of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence." Ward.

The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness. [Obs.] Sterne.

Origin; source; provenience.

urgatory." Piers Plowman. Roast [it] with fire, his head with his legs, and with the purtenance [Rev. Ver., inwards] thereof. Ex. xii. 9.

Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.

Bending or leaning backward.

The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule. Coleridge.

Exercising regal authority; reigning; as, a queen regnant.

A remnant. [Obs.]

Remaining; yet left. [R.] "Because of the remnant dregs of his disease." Fuller. And quiet dedicate her remnant life To the just duties of an humble wife. Prior.

The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like. That which causes us to lose most of our time is the repugnance which we naturally have to labor. Dryden. Let t…

e; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature. [His sword] repugnant to command. Shak. There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself. Perkins.

In a repugnant manner.

The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

Resonance.

resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.

In a reasonant manner.

Stagnant; motionless. [Obs.] Boyle.