antecedency

2 definitions found

antecedency - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Antecedency \An`te*ced"en*cy\, n.
     The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.
     --Fothherby.
     [1913 Webster]

antecedency - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  antecedency
      n 1: preceding in time [syn: priority, antecedence,
           antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency]
           [ant: posteriority, subsequence, subsequentness]