antecedently Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb at an earlier time or formerly
    previously.
    • she had previously lived in Chicago
    • he was previously president of a bank
    • better than anything previously proposed
    • a previously unquestioned attitude
    • antecedently arranged

WordNet

An`te*ced"ent*ly adverb
Definitions
  1. Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.

Webster 1913