Meaning of முந்தைய in English
- Antecedent; preceding in time.
- The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
- An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
- Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
- Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.
- That which goes before in time; that which precedes.
- One who precedes or goes in front.
- The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history.
- The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
- The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.
- The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.
- The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.
- Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement.
- Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
- of Precede
- Going before; -- opposed to following.
- In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2.
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