Adjective : an antecedent event.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : Little is known about his birth and antecedents.    From Dictionary.com. 

And unto this prayer, also, grace effectual is antecedently required.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

But what need of his help to do so, if antecedently thereunto so we do?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference

Thus is it with all men antecedently unto the preaching of the gospel unto them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

Yet thus far they went, that antecedently unto God's choice, "they appointed two," verse 23.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

In the beginning, antecedently to this covenant, the condition of the whole world was one and the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference

Howbeit we are, antecedently unto all acts of our own wills, obliged unto all that is called obedience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ] Reference

Now, these things I do account indispensably necessary, antecedently to believing, as to the substance of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved] Reference

First, antecedently; in this way it withdraws reason from its rectitude, and has therefore the character of evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

But the question is, whether they are godly or ungodly antecedently in any moment of time unto their justification?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference

To impute unto us that which was really ours antecedently unto that imputation, includes two things in it: — (1.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference

To impute unto us that which is not our own antecedently unto that imputation, includes also in it two things: — (1.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference

How long their presence might be protracted with persons not antecedently troubled in this way, is a question I can not answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opium Habit] Reference

First, The general nature of justification — State of the person to be justified antecedently thereunto, Rom.iv. 5; iii. 19; i.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference

Hence was that love of his unto them wherewith he loved them, and gave himself for them, antecedently unto any good or love in them, Eph.v. 25.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference

He is our head antecedently in order of nature to any communication of grace from him as a head, and yet not antecedently to our union with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference

There was antecedently allowed them the choice of two; and, consequently, their common suffrage that he should be among the number of the apostles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

They have abolished slavery by an astonishing unanimity; they have abolished nearly all the distinctions which antecedently existed between the two races.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

But the discourse of the apostle is about that which is not our own antecedently unto imputation, but is made ours thereby, as we have proved; for it is of grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference

Brocca, the French savant, states that there are anatomical differences between hare and rabbit which make it, antecedently, improbable that they should inter-breed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Whether these spiritual gifts and abilities, so communicated, be not the material call to the work of the ministry, antecedently required to the formal call thereunto.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

No; but "to every one that believeth," -- to all believers, consider them either antecedently to their being made believers, or consequentially, having received the word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference