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antecedents
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intention, aim |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, argument, basis, cause, consideration, design, determinant, end, goal, grounds, idea, impetus, incentive, inducement, motivation, motive, object, occasion, proof, purpose, rationale, root, spring, target, ulterior motive, warrant, wherefore, why, why and wherefore, whyfor |
| Main Entry: | ascendant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestor |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, ascendent, father, forbear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, mother, parent, predecessor, progenitor |
| Main Entry: | parentage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, birth, blood, bloodline, breed, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, family, forebear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, forerunner, genealogy, heritage, house, kindred, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor, race, seed, source, stock |
| Main Entry: | presager |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precursor |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, foreshadower, harbinger, herald, original*, originator, parent, pioneer, predecessor, prototype |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | provenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | agent, ancestor, ancestry, antecedent, author, base, beginning, causality, causation, connection, creator, derivation, determinant, egg, element, embryo, fount, fountain, fountainhead, generator, germ, horse's mouth, impulse, inception, inducement, influence, inspiration, mainspring, mother, motive, nucleus, occasion, parent, parentage, principle, producer, progenitor, provenance, root, roots, rootstock, seed, source, spring*, stock, well, wellspring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rootstock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | agent, ancestor, ancestry, antecedent, author, base, beginning, causality, causation, connection, creator, derivation, determinant, egg, element, embryo, fount, fountain, fountainhead, generator, germ, horse's mouth, impulse, inception, inducement, influence, inspiration, mainspring, mother, motive, nucleus, occasion, parent, parentage, principle, producer, progenitor, provenance, provenience, root, roots, seed, source, spring*, stock, well, wellspring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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aboriginal, aliunde, at the breast, baby, babyish, beginning, begun, boyish, callow, childish, embryonic, first, foremost, girlish, in arms, in long clothes, in one's teens, in swaddling clothes, in the cradle, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, infantile, infantine, initial, initiative, initiatory, innascible, introductory, just begun, kittenish, leading, maiden, mewling, nascent, natal, neonatal, new-born, new-fledged, paronymous, postnatal, postpartum, primeval, primogenial, puerile, puling, rudimental, shardborn, tootlish, unfledged, variorum
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| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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aboriginal, agnogenic, ambiotic, cacestogenous, causal, connate, efficacious, embryonic, embryotic, germinal, original, originated, primary, primitive, primordial, princeps, radical, seminal, subjacent
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| Main Entry: | hypothesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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allusive, assumed, conjectural, given, gratuitous, guessive, hypothetical, mooted, postulatory, presumptive, putative, speculative, stochastic, suggestive, supposable, supposing, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive, theoretical
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