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One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for "pseudonym."

relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to. That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience. Shak. If this but answer to my just belief, I 'll remember you. Shak. As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Pro…

A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.

The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. opposite, or in the place of.

Antecedent; preceding in time. "Capable of antecedaneous proof." Barrow.

To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass. Sir M. Hale.

The act or state of going before in time; precedence. H. Spenser.

Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.

Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.

To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.

Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.

An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.

Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.

Being before the time of Moses.

Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.

Before in time; antecedent. Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.

The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.

Deviating from the proper order of time. -- An`ti*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.