To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time. / To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date. / (lexicography) To find earlier citational evidence for a term.

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date. / (obsolete) anticipation

Any of a group of herbivore mammals, the subfamily Caprinae, that includes domestic sheep and goats.

Alternative form of ante meridiem

The outer part of the west end of a chapel.

The part of a church in front of the choir, often reserved for the clergy and choristers. / The division of a choir, that is divided as in some Spanish churches, that is further away from the sanctuary.

Any of several animals, in suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues.

plural of antecedent

plural of anteater

The relationship of preceding something in time or order. / That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry).