antepredicament
English
editEtymology
editFrom ante- + predicament.
Noun
editantepredicament (plural antepredicaments)
- (logic) A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms[from 17th century].
Translations
editprerequisite to a clear understanding of a predicament
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antepredicament”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)