antecedently
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Even the episodic recaps are announced as "antecedently on 'Fargo'" because "previously" is . . . basic, I guess.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2020
It is not lawful for superiors to impose anything in the worship of God that is not antecedently necessary.
From Books Condemned to be Burnt by James Anson Farrer
On examining other portions of his narrative, we find that they present the features which the miraculous elements rendered antecedently probable.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
Creative power or activity does not need any pre-existing subject on which to exercise its influence, any subject in whose passive potentiality the thing to be created is antecedently implicit.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
If we could make sure in any one case that no germs were antecedently present, we should have proved that in that case at least life was spontaneously generated.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto