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Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.

The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

An anterior zygapophysis.

Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.

The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.

of evidence and balancing of probabilities. Buckminster. We do not call for evidence till antecedent probabilities fail. J. H. Newman.

The segment next to the flagellum of the antennæ of Crustacea.

aphic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.

The dating of an event before the time it happened; an antedating; -- opposed to Ant: metachronism.

To antedate. Fitzed. Hall.

Concave in front; as, procoelian vertebræ, which have the anterior end of the centra concave and the posterior convex.

Previous; antecedent. Glanvill.

ace or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance

An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabrée, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned an…

The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone.

A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.

The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk.

The anterior of three principal cartilages in the fins of some fishes. -- Prop`ter*yg"i*al, a.

The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain.

ivision, or subclass, of gastropod mollusks, including those that have the gills situated anteriorly, or forward of the heart, and the sexes separate.