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Anterior adj.

Before in time; antecedent. "Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius."

Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; opposed to posterior. Note: In comparative anatomy, anterior often signifies at or toward the head, cephalic; and in human anatomy it is often used for ventral.

Synonyms: Antecedent; previous; precedent; preceding; former; foregoing.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... disastrous consequences, and secondly, consciously to provoke good ones instead, thus bringing physical health to the sick, and moral health to the neurotic and the erring, the unconscious victims of anterior autosuggestions, and to guide into the right path those who had a tendency to ...

— Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion • Emile Coue

... become of this parliamentary title? Improvements, if they had been made, or were presumed to have been made by tenants anterior to the sale, have ceased to be the property of the purchaser, and he has at the same time been deprived of some of the plainest and most inseparable rights of property. He has lost the power of disposing of his farms in the open market, of regulating the terms and conditions ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... the sovereign authority is composed of preorganized political bodies, by virtue of circumstances anterior to their union; and in this case the provincial governments assume the control, not only of those affairs which more peculiarly belong to their province, but of all, or of a part of the mixed affairs to which allusion ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... of such a mind associated with living extinction, appears incongruous, and to exceed the power of possible combination. Those who witnessed the progressive advances of this mournful condition were prepared for the event by successive changes, but with my anterior impressions, if in his present state I were to be abruptly presented to Robert Southey, and met the vacant and cold glance of indifference, the concussion to my feelings would so overwhelm, that—merciful indeed would be the power which shielded me ...

— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle

... already the anterior part of this submarine boat, of which this is the exact division, starting from the ship's head: the dining-room, five yards long, separated from the library by a water-tight partition; the library, five yards long; the large drawing-room, ten yards long, separated ...

— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne

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