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r; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v. 6.

e thee, and not thine own mouth. Prov. xxvii. 2. While I am coming, another steppeth down before me. John v. 7.

Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

Before death; -- generally used adjectivelly; as, an ante- mortem statement; ante-mortem examination.

nswer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). 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.

Being before, or in front. [R.] J. Fleming.

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.

One who goes before; a predecessor. The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

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.

Something done before another act. [Obs.]

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 noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

Being before the time of Moses.

Being or occurring before the creation of the world. Young.