Adjective : events anterior to the outbreak of war.    From Dictionary.com. 

"As Billeter argues," he concludes, "there was a unique anteriority of script over speech.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Calligraphic Spirit] Reference

Avempace refers to mechanics and optics as theoretical sciences which are similar to geometry in the anteriority of their problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ibn Bajja] Reference

But it is within the nearest proximity that what is to be thought is sheltered—a thought whose vocation is to liberate the tradition, and to connect it to its “essential still reserved anteriority” (sein noch aufgespartes Gewesenes) (ID, 44).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Let's not forget that Spanish has inherited the following from Classical latin: "The rules tha regulates the verb in the regent clause and in the subordinate one in order to express anteriority, posteriority and contemporaneity; usually the subordinate clause go to subjunctive mood, and there are still present the infinitive clauses in spanish also the accusative dative.".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: ITALIAN DIALECTS.] Reference

The ogive is, perhaps, very ancient; and authors dispute as to the anteriority of the Romanesque to the Gothic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference

If in this admirable passage aught else dare be wished otherwise, it is the division and yet confusion of time and eternity, by giving an anteriority to the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference

Dufour uses the concept of hysterology ( "a figure of rhetoric based upon the inversion of anteriority and posteriority") to consider the problem of the postmodern subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [I cite] Reference

This, more than any mere chronological anteriority, makes him a true Asylum Doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference

"The EFSA methodology for health claim evaluation, widely based on anteriority and existing scientific consensus, is in opposition with innovation.    From Wordnik.com.  [FoodNavigator RSS] Reference

For, when a person has not abandoned the want of knowledge concerning misery, etc., which is called ignorance, then by that want of knowledge concerning misery and concerning anteriority, etc., he seizes on the misery of the round of rebirth with the idea that it is happiness and hence begins to perform the threefold karma which is its cause; by that want of knowledge concerning the origin of misery and by being under the impression that thus happiness is secured, he begins to perform karma that ministers to desire, though such karma is really the cause of misery; and by that want of knowledge concerning cessation and the path and under the impression that some particular form of existence will prove to be the cessation of misery, although it really is not so, or that sacrifices, alarming the gods by the greatness of his austerities, and other like procedures are the way to cessation, although they are not such a way, he begins to perform the threefold karma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karma. II. The Doctrine. Translated from the Visuddhi-Magga (chap. xvii.).] Reference