antecedently

adv

1. At an earlier time.

   “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.”

   “[…] 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.”

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

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

   “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.”