antecedently

antecedent +‎ -ly

antecedently (comparative more antecedently, superlative most antecedently)

1. At an earlier time.

   Synonyms: beforehand, earlier, precedently, previously

   Antonyms: afterward, later, subsequently

   • 1593, Richard Harvey, Philadelphus‎, London: John Wolfe:

     The History of Brute and the Brutans setteth forth. Principally and antecedently their persons, & in them sheweth the geneallogy or issue which they had, artes which they studied, actes which they did.

   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist‎, Part 4, pp. 214-215:

     […] it does not at all appear, that all Mixtures must be of Elementary Bodies; but it seems farr more probable, that there are divers sorts of compound Bodies, even in regard of all or some of their Ingredients, consider’d Antecedently to their Mixture.

   • 1739, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature‎, London: John Noon, Volume 1, Part 2, Section 6, p. 123:

     […] nothing is ever present to the mind but perceptions, and […] all ideas are deriv’d from something antecedently present to the mind;

   • 1896, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales‎, New York: Harper, page 4:

     She had never antecedently regarded this occupation of his as any objection to having him for a husband.

   • 2008, Michael Della Rocca, chapter 4, in Spinoza, London: Routledge, page 161:

     The case of envy just described is one in which we feel joy or sadness at the sadness or joy of one we antecedently hate.