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ancestor: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) a preceding occurrence or cause or event anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience" preceding in time or order the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
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| antecedent sign |
any precursory indication of an attack of disease.
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In expert systems, the IF part of an IF
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the word or phrase to which a later word or phrase (eg an anaphor) refers.
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is a substantive word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. Example: "Mary saw John and spoke to him." (John is the antecedent of "him.")
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