| 词组 | anterior |
| 释义 | anterior Our evidence of anterior as an attributive adjective runs pretty heavily to technical contexts. As a predicate adjective it usually takes to. It tends to be found in rather learned or at least elevated styles. • In political theory, even a constitutional system entails powers anterior to those specified in the Constitution —National Rev., 17 Nov. 1970 • ... the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh, which is a genuine epic by any definition and is not only anterior to the Bible but may also have influenced both the Greek and the Indian epics —Moses Hadas, Commentary, October 1957 • ... a parallel liberation which Croce seeks in his presentation of Art as ideally anterior to Thought — Cecil Sprigge, Benedetto Croce, 1952 |
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