Meanings of antecedence in English

It's not only the sins that are visited upon you if you take the details of your antecedence seriously.

The chief principle, then, of savage science is that antecedence and consequence in time are the same as effect and cause.

I must necessarily set out from the one, to which therefore I give hypothetical antecedence, in order to arrive at the other.

And a posteriori, it will be proved by the principle itself when it is discovered, as involving universal antecedence in its very conception.

Secondly, it may be referred to the very nature of the action itself: that is, forasmuch as predestination implies antecedence and gratuitous effect.

Moreover, it must be observed that, although the participle "predestinated," just as this participle "made," implies antecedence, yet there is a difference.

3: Further, just as that which has been made was not always, so also that which was predestinated; since predestination implies a certain antecedence.