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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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... stalls, ferreting out among the Gothic relievos the discoveries enjoyed by his unwholesome curiosity. This first row of stalls, almost on a level with the ground, were occupied by the inferior clergy, and were anterior by half a century to the upper stalls; but in those fifty years art had made a great stride, from the hard and rigid Gothic to the flowing lines and good taste of the Renaissance. They had been carved by Maestre Rodrigo at the ...

— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... consists of two different parts, distinct in their origin, history, function and secretions, but juxtaposed and fused into what is apparently a homogeneous entity. They are conveniently spoken of as the anterior ...

— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... cement, to those of some species of Palaeotherium, especially Cuvier's Palaeotherium minus, which has been formed into a separate genus, Plagiolophus, by Pomel. But in the fact that there are only six full-sized grinders in the lower jaw, the first premolar being very small; that the anterior grinders are as large as, or rather larger than, the posterior ones; that the second premolar has an anterior prolongation; and that the posterior molar of the lower jaw has, as Cuvier pointed out, a posterior ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

... difficult and of so great responsibility without practical experience in navigation; and, as it will appear hereafter that he was in the army several years during the civil war, probably from 1592 to 1598, his experience in navigation must have been obtained anterior to that, in the years of his youth and ...

— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain

... coincidence in many points, yet the differences in coloring, detail, and presentation are too great to suppose the legend borrowed by one from either of the others. It probably descended to the Chaldeans, Polynesians, and Hebrews alike, from a source or people anterior to themselves, of whom history ...

— Hawaiian Folk Tales - A Collection of Native Legends • Various

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