antecedently
adverb
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adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English antecedent Middle English -ly English -ly English antecedently From antecedent + -ly.
- At an earlier time.
“The History of Brute and the Brutans setteth forth. Principally and antecedently their persons, & in them sheweth the geneallogy or issue which they had, artes which they studied, actes which they did.”
“[…] it does not at all appear, that all Mixtures must be of Elementary Bodies; but it seems farr more probable, that there are divers sorts of compound Bodies, even in regard of all or some of their Ingredients, consider’d Antecedently to their Mixture.”