antecedence

With an antecedence reaching back to 1689, the regiment was formed in 1992.

Since yacatl (the nose going first) often implies antecedence, here the word may refer to the fact that the hill is the first and most prominent of a series of three."

(Note to Ed.: "If you'd read 'Huckleberry Finn' you'd know that using 'go for' as a synonym for 'attack' has high literary antecedence.

In fact, the 1981 strike was antecedence to the Yankees' demise and downfall of the 1980s and 1990s and the strike in 1994 was part of that demise.

The compatibility of Liberté and Égalité was not doubted in the first days of the Revolution, and the problem of the antecedence of one term on the other not lifted.

Mighty but older streams like the Indus, Sutlej, Kali, Kosi and Brahmaputra have cut through steep gorges to escape into the Great Plains and have established their antecedence.

De Kooning used his vast repertory of gesture and visual references to build, with lightning thrusts of paint on paint, figures that, despite their classical antecedence, were still infused with his own memories and desires.

The statue of Uma Mahadev made in 9th-10th century, and statue of Ganesha made in 11th-12th century and remains of Gupta Empire prove the antecedence of Kapalmochan.

Frustrated by their inability to refer directly to their Little River Band antecedence (another band member now owns the rights to the name), the trio perform as Birtles Shorrock Goble (BSG).

Antecedence played a major part in shaping other peculiar geographic features in the watershed, including the Dolores River's bisection of Paradox Valley in Colorado and the Green River carving its way through the Uinta Mountains in Utah.

At the restoration of the monarchy Charles II kept a small standing army, formed from elements of the Royalist army in exile and elements of the New Model Army, from which the most senior regiments of the today's British Army can trace their antecedence.

Whereas the "Author-God" maintained with his work "the same relation of antecedence a father maintains with his child," the scriptor "is born simultaneously with his text": for him, "there is no other time than that of the utterance, and every text is eternally written here and now".