antecedent 

  1. 名詞
前情, 前事
前身
(關係代名詞的)先行詞
(比例)前項
(邏緝)前件
/以上複數為"antecedents"/
通常為複數"antecedents":
來路, 來歷
經歷, 學歷
祖先

    同義字詞
causality,causation,cause,occasion,reason
ancestor,archetype,daddy,foregoer,forerunner,granddaddy,grandaddy,precursor,predecessor,prototype

  2. 形容詞
在先的, 在前的
先前的
antecedent to ...(事) :
在...之前的

    同義字詞
anterior,foregoing,former,precedent,preceding,previous,prior

例句

  1. An antecedent debt or liability.
  2. What does the antecedent of this?
  3. Both parties reserved all their antecedent rights.
  4. A lso, the antecedent (in italics) can be a clause.
  5. The "making alive" was antecedent to the salvation.